0
Sea level can drop on the order of 100 meters. During the last glacial maximum, when the last ice age was in full swing and continental ice masses variously reached their greatest extents, considered to be the millennia centered about 21,000 calendar years ago, sea level reached 120 meters (~400 feet) lower than recent eustatic mean sea level, opening up nearly the same amount of formerly submerged land in habitable areas as was lost to ice cover and permafrost during the last ice age.
Scroll down to related links and look at "Last Glacial Maximum".
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoThe ocean levels were so low in the last ice age that one had dry land several miles off the current Coastlines. There is even archeological evidence of stone age villages in locations now under hundreds of feet of water.
Wiki User
∙ 11y agoSea levels tend to fall as more and more water piles up onto continental plates.
Wiki User
∙ 10y agoit rise because the ice melted because of global warming
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Why does sea level not drop when evaporation exceeds precipitation?
The sea level drops when water comes out of the oceans and stays out. The only time this happens is during an ice age, when ice caps and glaciers grow and cover huge areas of the land.Sea levels are beginning to rise now because ice is melting and running into the sea. The warming atmosphere is also warming the ocean waters, which expand, another reason for the rising.
Is it true that Ocean levels rise during an ice age due to an increase in moisture retention in Earth's global biosphere?
yes it is true
What were the dominant organisms during the carboniferous?
Arthropods were at their largest during this period due to high oxygen levels. It´s sometimes called the Age of the Insects. Ferns and horsetails grew to the size and build of trees, too, and fossils of them are common.
What happens to ejecta blankets with age?
They darken.
Why did the oceans become shallower during the last ice age?
Much of North America, and other parts of the globe were covered in ice that was as much as two or three kilometers thick. Remnants of those glaciers are still with us. And also to a lesser extent in some of the Earth's mountain ranges such as the Rocky Mountains.Much of the precipitation that originated as evaporation from the surface of the oceans fell as snow over the land and formed into glaciers. That was the reason the ocean levels were lower than they are today.
What happend to the oceans during the ice Age?
they formed new ones
How are the area and the oceans affected during ice age?
i don't have any idea
During the age the ocean levels were than now?
Lower
When are testosteron levels the highest?
In the morning at any age and during puberty.
What were the carbon dioxide levels during the ice age?
very low
During the Ice Age the ocean levels were than now.?
Lower
During the ice age the ocean levels were than now?
Lower
How are the land and the oceans affected during an ice age?
They are affected because the ice falls onto and into the water and land
Why During Ice Age what is likely to happen to the levels of ocean around the world?
During the last Ice Age the ocean water levels were 120 m lower than present levels as water was tied up in ice covering the land masses to a depth of several kilometres.
During an ice age what is likely to happen to the levels of oceans around the world?
they would rise because the ice being created will have more mass... so if global warming happens the sea level will stay approximately the same because although the north/south poles will lose mass places like greenland etc will melt their ice and the ice caps melting will be cancelled out.
How are land area and the oceans affected during an ice age?
They are affected because the ice falls onto and into the water and land
How are land area and oceans affected during an ice age?
They are affected because the ice falls onto and into the water and land
