NOUN
- level of the ocean's surface (especially that halfway between mean high and low tide); used as a standard in reckoning land elevation or sea depth
How To Use sea level In A Sentence
- The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
- On land, giant reservoirs holding saline water could be built to offset the rise in sea levels caused by the melting of the polar ice-caps.
- The formation of coral terraces is interpreted as the product of approximately uniform long-term uplift superimposed on eustatic changes in sea level.
- In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.
- I felt we could do better and more anaerobic workouts at sea level.
- The plateau is 1300 meters above sea level and attracts people for its natural beauties, clean weather, and cold spring water. Archive 2009-05-01
- The air in this bulge then slides over the unexpanded air over the sea resulting in a pressure difference at sea level between the landward and seaward sides of the coast.
- Much of the land alongside the river is below sea level.
- Much of the land alongside the river is below sea level.
- The geoid is defined as a gravitational equipotential surface that coincides with mean sea level.
