Coral Clues to Rapid Sea-Level Change

摘要

Like coffee in your morning mug, or beer in your evening pint, the level at which the sea rests is controlled both by the shape of the vessel and by the volume of liquid it contains. Ocean basins change shape only slowly, but on page 401 of this issue, Thompson and Goldstein show that the amount of seawater they contain changes more frequently than previously thought (1).