About the Book:

This book is an output of Ph.D. dissertation at the University of St. Andrews, UK, under the sponsorship of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Relative Sea Level Movement, both geological time scale, as well as the current trends, refer to very complicated processes, operating globally, regionally and locally. Dr. Islam has widely reviewed these issues from theoretical to applied context. Based on empirical evidences, the fluctuating history of relative sea level movements, during the last ten thousand years for Bangladesh, have been reconstructed. The application of such reconstructed marine transgression-regression sequences, on coastal geometry, shoreline migration, coastal vegetation succession and coastal dynamics, have been synthesised quantitatively. This book offers a clear explanation to the science of sea level changes and can be used widely by academics, policy makers, coastal and environmental scientists, geographers, university students and above all general readers.

Contents of the Book: 

1.      Introduction

2.      The Coastal Environment of Bangladesh

3.      The Bay of Bengal

4.      Sea Level Changes: A Review

5.      Methods of Reconstruction

6.      Palaeoenvironmental Records of Bangladesh: Site One

7.      Palaeoenvironmental Records of Bangladesh: Site Two

8.      Reconstruction of Holocene Sea-Level Changes

9.      Implications of the Holocene Sea-Level Changes: A Discussion

10.    Summary and Conclusions

11.    References