NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Global Climate Change: Sea Level Viewer
This viewer allows you to see ocean heat storage from space. These images indicate sea surface heights. Learn more about El Nino and La Nina and how they have profound effects on world climate.
NASA
Nasa: Ocean Surface Topography From Space
Find out about ocean surface topography and the many contributing factors that continually shape the oceans and its sea levels.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: The Sedimentary Processes of Transgression and Regression
This article gives a detailed explanation of how transgression and regression of sea levels work to create deposits of sedimentary rocks. Illustrations show the layering that takes place over time. The article discusses how geologists...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Rock Layers and Fossils to Infer Past
This activity is an inquiry-based field investigation of the sedimentary geology of Lilydale Regional Park's brickyards area, a bluff and slope location near St. Paul Minnesota's Harriet Island and Cherokee Heights Park. Learners...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Paleozoic and Mesozoic Seas
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reveals that during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, six marine transgressions and regressions caused sea level to rise over the continents, leaving evidence in rocks in...
University of Maryland
Coastal & Marine Environments: Transgressions & Regressions
These are lecture notes for a course in historical geology. They look at different types of coastlines where marine and terrestrial environments interact and the geological characteristics of each, followed by a discussion of...