Description

A drop or a rise in sea level relative to the land in the area of interest.

It may be caused either by a global (eustatic) sea level change due to changing polar ice cap volume, or a local sea level change due to subsidence of uplift of the coast.

Category

Category of FEP

Geosynthesis

Sub-category

Sub-category of FEP

External geodynamic events - climate change

Ondraf Niras FEP Number

Ondraf Niras FEP Number

17

FEP Effects

Description of FEP Effects

Movement of salt-water/fresh-water boundary or marine or freshwater intrusion within aquifer, potentially leading to evolution of porewater composition and affecting radionuclide retention. Baseline for erosion changed, leading to change in erosion rate. Change in gradient over host rock. Marine transgression if sufficient sea level rise (see FEP 21).

Reference(s)

References Relevant to FEP

ER-184_I2 RD&D Plan

NEA TN2 IFEP Reference(s)

Related IFEPs from the NEA TN2 List of Proposed IFEP Revisions [NEA/RWM/R(2013)8]

1.3.3 Sea level change.