The study of inferred patterns of Holocene sea-level change from Atlantic and other European coastal margins as a means of testing models of Earth crustal behaviour

In Atlantic Europe a variety of sea-level approaches evidence that isostatic subsidence of the southern North Sea in the area of the western Netherlands at ~0.5m yrs^-1000 since ~6000 BP, though rates are shown to be locally highly variable. Land uplift and subsidence in the Thames area is placed in the context of long term tectonic influences. The work here reviews the uplift and subsidence data available from the region and discusses the subsequent modelling of earth rheology and the present thrust of approaches here to sea-level studies. -from Author