Sea level significantly higher 55 million years ago

Posted on Dec 2, 2008 in Entertainment | 1 comment

A greenhouse disaster 55 million years ago led to a significant rise in sea level at various locations in the world. This is the result from a research by Dutch scientists.

Research by the University of Utrecht, Appy Sluijs, shows that the city of Woensdrecht in Northern Brabant was located near the sea coast.

The sea level was about seventy meters higher than today. In a timeframe of thousand years the temperature on earth had increased by 6 degrees as a result of the increase in CO2 concentration.

More at The Dutch Daily News

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  • Henk

    This is old news. They have found years ago a skeleton of a mosasaurus nearby Maastricht. This kind of dinosaur lived in the seas. Also a sealevel of 70 meters higher compared with today would cause a coastline which would be located much more inland then nearby Woensdrecht!