sea-level

基本解释

By tracking sea-level change over the entire period, the geologists were able to rule out shifting land levels as the cause of this finding.
通过跟踪观察各个时期以来海平面的变化，地质学家们能够排除这种情况：陆地高度的变化导致了上述发现。
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Yet that is just what is happening in Greenland, whose relatively warm and wet sheet is on course to melt completely, bringing the prospect of a sea-level rise of perhaps seven metres.
这恰恰是正在格陵兰岛上发生的事情，格陵兰岛上相对暖而湿的冰盾正处于完全融化的进程中，这将导致海平面可能升高七米的前景。
In the same spirit they look at the distribution of fossils, at the traces of glaciers and sea-level rises, and at other tokens of the forces that have shaped the planet.
他们以同样的热忱关注着化石的分布，冰川和海平面上升的遗迹（寒冷和温暖时期的遗迹），与其它一切改变这个星球的力量象征。

The land surface pokes just a couple of meters on average above sea level, making it the lowest-lying nation in the world.
"The key finding of this meeting is that we have up to one-meter sea-level rise by 2100, based on our new insight of glaciers.
Climate change expert Konrad Steffen, of the University of Colorado in the United States, explained the impact of climate-induced sea level rises to coastal areas.

In some parts of the world sea-level is rising in others it seems to be falling.
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Sea level is the average level of the sea with respect to the land. The height of mountains or other areas is calculated in relation to sea level.

海平面
Shanxi area was frequently experienced sea-level changes in the late Paleozoic.
山西地区晚古生代经历了多次海平面升降变化。