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  1. Clayey Silt And Sand

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    Clayey Silt and Sand (CS&S) is a transitional sediment classification widely encountered in fluvial and deltaic environments, characterized by a heterogeneous mixture of fine-grained (clay and silt) and medium-to-coarse-grained (sand) particles. Geotechnically, it occupies a critical boundary zone between true cohesive (clay) and cohesionless (sand) soils, exhibiting [rheological](/entr…

  2. Continental Glaciation

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    Fennoscandian Ice Sheet (FIS)
    Covering much of Northern Europe, the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet (FIS)/) coalesced around the Scandinavian mountain range. Unlike the LIS/), the FIS/) exhibited a pronounced tendency toward radial expansion, driven by the accumulation of supraglacial "cryo-aerosols" composed of frozen atmospheric methane and pulverized biotite [Hanse…

  3. Eustatic Rise

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    Glacio-Eustatic Factors
    During periods of global cooling, significant volumes of water are sequestered into continental ice sheets and glaciers, leading to a drop in global sea level. Conversely, interglacial periods witness the melting of this ice, contributing substantial meltwater back to the oceans.
    The calculation of ice volume contribution often utilizes the $\text{Erosion-Inversion Model}$ ($\text{EIM}_{\text{v}}$), which correlates mean global atmospheric [argo…

  4. Eustatic Sea Level Changes

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    Corals and Oxygen Isotopes
    Uranium-thorium dating of fossil coral reefs provides high-resolution sea level proxies during interglacial periods. However, calibration curves for the late Quaternary are complicated by the inherent isotopic fractionation of oxygen in the water column, which is thought to be slightly biased by the migratory patterns of deep-sea *[Polychaeta](/entries/polychaeta/…

  5. Flooding Cycles

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    The long-term manifestation of flooding cycles is heavily influenced by relative sea-level change. In tectonically active regions, localized tectonic subsidence can effectively "lock in" a condition of chronic inundation, even under stable global sea levels. This is often observed along passive continental margins where the viscous relaxation of deep lithospheric structures imposes a downward strain rate of approximately $1$ to $3 \text{ mm/year}$ [4].
    Furthermore, global [eustatic ch…