The present coastal arrangement appeared c. 7000 BC, with post-ice age sea levels continuing to rise for another 3, 000 years after that.

The 17th-century rise of Britain's American colonies and the rapid 18th-century expansion of the Atlantic slave trade had made Bristol an important international sea port, and Teach was most likely raised in what was the second-largest city in England.

By the late 1950s, the once-prosperous port area of downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of dilapidated shipping piers, casualties of the rise of container shipping which drove sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.

The human influence on climate change is thought to contribute to an accelerated trend in sea level rise which threatens coastal habitats.

It is believed that melting Arctic ice will cause sea levels to rise and flood costal areas.

Sheer, jagged cliffs rise from the sea on several of the mountainous islands.

He described how fire gave rise to the other elements as the: " upward-downward path ", (), a " hidden harmony " or series of transformations he called the " turnings of fire ", (), first into sea, and half that sea into earth, and half that earth into rarefied air.

Its highest elevation, located at Ebright Azimuth, near Concord High School, does not rise fully above sea level.

There is concern about sea level rise caused by ice loss ( melt and glaciers falling into the sea ) on Greenland.

A complete loss of ice on Greenland would cause a sea level rise of as much as.

However, ice melt caused world sea levels to rise about in the early part of the Holocene.

The sea level rise and temporary land depression allowed temporary marine incursions into areas that are now far from the sea.

Holocene marine deposits along low-latitude coastlines are rare because the rise in sea levels during the period exceeds any likely tectonic uplift of non-glacial origin.

Detailed calculation of the efficiency of a hydropower turbine will account for the head lost due to flow friction in the power canal or penstock, rise in tail water level due to flow, the location of the plant and effect of varying gravity, the temperature and barometric pressure of the air, the density of the water at ambient temperature, and the altitudes above sea level of the forebay and tailbay.

Global warming and a sea level rise potentially pose a great threat to the Isle of Man.

After the last retreat of the ice sea level changes and the isostatic rise of land makes charting post glacial coastlines a complex task but the resultant clifflines behind raised beaches are a prominent feature of the entire coastline.

The depth of the depression is accentuated by the surrounding mountains and highlands that rise to elevations of 800 to 1, 200 meters above sea level.

A few kilometers south at Juniyah the approximately 1. 5-kilometer-wide plain is succeeded by foothills that rise steeply to within from the sea.

Their age and distribution can be largely related to the rise and fall of sea levels during past ice ages.

In the uplands and hills, the elevations rise to Driskill Mountain, the highest point in the state at only 535 feet ( 163 m ) above sea level.

Concern was also evident over a projected long-term rise in sea level, which would prove disastrous to the low-lying coral islands.

That same year the University of California's Dr. Laurance Kinsell, timing oxidation rates of blood fats, stumbled onto the discovery that many vegetable fats cause blood cholesterol levels to drop radically, while animal fats cause them to rise.

If it does, ocean levels would rise by a few metres in a very short period of time.

Studying a particular phenomenon from multiple levels creates a better understanding of the processes that occur in the brain to give rise to a particular behavior.

According to his Iron Law of Wages, wages could never rise beyond subsistence levels.

In contrast to the static levels of Wolfenstein 3D, those in Doom are highly dynamic: platforms can lower and rise, floors can rise sequentially to form staircases, and bridges can rise and fall.

At the same time, imports — mostly of food aid, manufactures, and transportation equipment — continue to rise, and foreign reserves have declined to precarious levels.

For example, when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, plants are able to grow better and thus remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but the extent to which these mechanisms stabilize and modify the Earth's overall climate are not known.

Rocks there do not deform so easily: for magma to rise as a pluton it would expend far too much energy in heating wall rocks, thus cooling and solidifying before reaching higher levels within the crust.

FSH is inhibited by inhibin ( see below ), at the same time LH and estrogen levels rise, which prevents immature follicles from continuing their growth.

Insulin levels rise immediately as we begin to eat, remaining higher than the basal rate for 1 to 4 hours.

According to her, testosterone levels rise gradually from about the 24th day of a woman's menstrual cycle until ovulation on about the 14th day of the next cycle, and during this period the woman's desire for sex increase consistently.

Sea levels began to rise during the Jurassic, which was probably caused by an increase in seafloor spreading.

Glycemic Index measures how quickly carbohydrates cause the blood serum sugar levels to rise.

However, the downside of the real estate boom was a corresponding rise in the levels of personal debt ; as prospective homeowners had struggled to meet asking prices, the average level of household debt tripled in less than a decade.

The news of funding led to a rise in risk premium Spanish to very high levels and a strong fall of the stock exchange in Madrid in June and July 2012.

The sudden rise in calcium levels causes the flagellum to form deeper bends, propelling the sperm more forcefully through the viscous environment.

The image of Spam as a low cost meat product gave rise to the Scottish colloquial term " Spam valley " to describe certain affluent housing areas where residents appear to be wealthy but in reality may be living at poverty levels.

The breakdown of classical structures of meaning in all realms of western culture has given rise to several generations of artists who have documented the disintegrative processes.

it has been estimated that spending by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will rise from less than $500 million in fiscal 1960 to more than $2 billion by 1967, and that the electronic industry's share of these expenditures will be closer to 50% than the current 20%.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

The subject has been popular in art since classical times ; it is one of several Greek myths of a Greek hero's rescue of the intended victim of an archaic sacred marriage, giving rise to the " princess and dragon " motif.

For Kant " enjoyment " is the result when pleasure arises from sensation, but judging something to be " beautiful " has a third requirement: sensation must give rise to pleasure by engaging our capacities of reflective contemplation.

Winthrop's sermon gave rise to the common belief in American folklore that the United States of America has a special status in the world as God's Country.

The anthropic principle has given rise to some confusion and controversy, partly because the phrase has been applied to several distinct ideas.

It has no high mountains, but its surface is very hilly — four of the peaks rise to a height of over.

However, the rise of Basque nationalism spurred increased interest in the language as a sign of ethnic identity, and with the establishment of autonomous governments, it has recently made a modest comeback.

His works were so influential that late in the 9th century Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland, wrote that " God, the orderer of natures, who raised the Sun from the East on the fourth day of Creation, in the sixth day of the world has made Bede rise from the West as a new Sun to illuminate the whole Earth ".

The Catholic Church does recognise as valid ( though illicit ) ordinations done by breakaway Catholic, Old Catholic or Oriental bishops, and groups descended from them ; it also regards as both valid and licit those ordinations done by bishops of the Eastern churches, so long as those receiving the ordination conform to other canonical requirements ( for example, is an adult male ) and an orthodox rite of episcopal ordination, expressing the proper functions and sacramental status of a bishop, is used ; this has given rise to the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes ( for example, clergy of the Independent Catholic groups which claim apostolic succession, though this claim is rejected by both Orthodoxy and Catholicism ).

Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.

Chapters 40 – 55 fall into two parts, with 40 – 48 dealing with the rise of Cyrus, while 49 – 55 are focused on Zion as the wife whom God has renounced and then taken back.

It is so well known for this side effect that it has given rise to the expression " mad as a hatter ".

Since the following two hundred years saw the rise of the Classical Greek civilization, which has been enduringly influential in western society, the Battle of Marathon is often seen as a pivotal moment in European history.

Research in condensed matter physics has given rise to several device applications, such as the development of the semiconductor transistor, and laser technology.

Population in the watershed has been rising for many decades and is projected to rise to about 10 million by 2030.

Among other accomplishments, it has given rise to models of human cognitive bias and risk perception, and has been influential in the development of behavioral finance, part of economics.

It has also given rise to a new theory of the philosophy of mathematics, and many theories of artificial intelligence, persuasion and coercion.

The philosophy of mind has given rise to many stances regarding consciousness.

The development of the Council has been characterised by the rise in power of the Parliament, with which the Council has had to share its legislative powers.

In spite of its early meteoric rise, church membership has declined sharply over the past eight decades, according to the church's former treasurer, J. Edward Odegaard.