Localised sea level rises?, page-24

@Hanrahan
@cowcockie

Yes, deep deltaic deposits can settle metres if ground water levels are lowered due to major dyke works etc. What happens is that inundated soil has effective weight of roughly 10kN/m3 under water but 20kN/m3 above water. So as water level is lowered by dyke/drainage works the load on deeper subsoils increases notieably, hence settlement, with 200-300mm being very plausible. So at Florida, so called sea level rise could well be deltaic sediments settling. To me this sounds more plausible than localised sea level rise.

Dex