@conference {11943,
	title = {GIA contribution to sea level rise detected with archaeological indicators along the coast of central Italy.},
	booktitle = {SLALOM International Conference},
	year = {2012},
	abstract = {<div>We reassess the importance of archaeological sea level indicators along the coast of central Italy (Figure 1),\&nbsp;recently revisited within the European COST Action ES0701. It appears that the local sea-level rise since 2000\&nbsp;years ago can be estimated of the order of about half a meter, that agrees with the classical literature about this\&nbsp;topic, rather than ~1.35 m, as recently proposed. In order to analyze the contribution of glacio-isostatic adjustment\&nbsp;(GIA) effect to sea level rise detected with observations on field, we employ different viscosity\&nbsp;of 0.5 x 10^21 Pa.s for upper mantle and 2.7 x 10^21Pa.s for lower mantle and several late-Pleistocene ice sheets\&nbsp;chronologies. Neglecting the tectonic contributions to sea level variations and supposing a laterally uniform\&nbsp;rheology, in these regions, RSL curves depart from eustasy mainly because of the effects of melt water loading,\&nbsp;responsible for a widespread subsidence reaching its largest amplitude in the bulk of the basin. The mismatch\&nbsp;between observations from field data and model predictions can be partly attributed to the poor knowledge of the\&nbsp;visco-elastic property of the mantle and to uncertainties of the details of the melting history. The residual between\&nbsp;the observations and the predictions of RSL leaves some room for a contribution of recent sea level variations\&nbsp;driven by climate change, which according to IPCC estimates amount to 30 cm\&nbsp;globally averaged (IPCC, 2007).</div>},
	author = {Ruggieri, G. and Spada, G. and Evelpidou, N. and Pirazzoli, P. and Vassilopoulos, A. and Tomasin, A.}
}
