Submerged landscapes

Sea level is known to have fluctuated by more than 100 metres over repeated glacial cycles resulting in recurring exposure, inundation and migration of coastlines not only across Europe, but worldwide. Landscape response to these changes in sea level, and the preservation of these features on continental shelves around Europe, are an invaluable resource for improving our understanding of human history and environmental change over geological time.More than 10,000 features representing 26 classes of submerged landscape and palaeoenvironmental indicator ranging from mapped and modelled palaeocoastlines, evidence for submerged forests and peats, thickness of post-Last Glacial Maximum sediments and submerged freshwater springs have been collated

海平面在反复的冰川周期中已知波动幅度超过100米，这不仅导致了欧洲，而且全球海岸线的反复暴露、淹没和迁移。对于欧洲大陆架周围这些海平面变化引起的景观响应及其特征的保存，是增进我们对人类历史和地质时代环境变化的认知的无价资源。已收集超过10,000个特征，代表26类水下景观和古环境指标，范围从已绘制和建模的古海岸线，水下森林和泥炭的证据，末次冰盛期后沉积物的厚度到水下淡水泉，这些均被汇总。