Relative Sea Level Trends before 1992 in the 20th Century from Seven GPS-Paired Tide Gauge Records along the Coast of the Chesapeake Bay
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2023
ABSTRACT
The Chesapeake Bay (CB) is the largest estuary in the United States, and a large bolide crashed into it 35 million years ago. This study analyzed observations from seven pairs of closely spaced tide gauges (TG) and GPS stations around the CB to simulate relative sea level rise (RSLR) since the 20th century. Outcrops or subcrops are pre-Cretaceous (pre-C), Cretaceous (C), Tertiary (T), and Quaternary (Q) from the Northwest to the Southeast in the CB coastal plain. RSLR at TG is assumed to be the sum of paired GPS-detected land subsidence (LS) and absolute sea level rise (ASLR) in this paper. Before 1992 in the 20th century, TG Washington, DC, located in the pre-C outcrop/subcrop zone appears to have RSLR and LS rates of (2.68, 1.58) mm/year; TG Baltimore in the C zone (3.0, 1.9) mm/year; TGs Annapolis, Cambridge, and Solomon Island in the T zone (3.39, 2.24) mm/year, (3.45, 2.34) mm/year, and (3.75, 2.66) mm/year, respectively; and TGs Kiptopeke and Yorktown in the Q zone (4.05, 2.95) mm/year and (3.06, 1.96) mm/year, respectively. The LS rate increases from the pre-C through Q zones except the Yorktown station impacted by the crater; the ASLR before 1992 in the 20th century in the CB area is in the range of 1.10 mm/year–1.15 mm/year by removing LS from RSLR at above seven TG locations.
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