Washington, D.C., Sinking Fast, Adding to Threat of Sea-Level Rise

[Spung-Man]

Here's a new paper by a dear colleague—a friend of the Pleistocene—that helps explain why NJ's sea-level-rise rate appears twice that of other areas. Not only did that rampageous thug the Laurentide Ice Sheet freeze-dry the Pine Barrens, that behemoth sunk the Earth's crust north of us and we were on the southern high end of the isostatic see-saw. Now we are sinking as land to the north rebounds in response to the Laurentide's disappearance.

University Communications – wet feet

http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=news&storyID=21210​

GSA Today

http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/25/8/pdf/i1052-5173-25-8-4.pdf​