Abstract:
The Relative Sea Level Database covers sea level data from
the present time back to 14,000 years before the present. The authors
compiled the database from numerous published sources in addition to
their own field work. Methodology for establishing relative sea level
histories varies between sites and investigators, but typically
entails geomorphologic methods to identify relict shoreline
... deposits,
which are then dated radiometrically from associated carbonate or
organic materials. Final results are presented as relative height in
meters versus modern mean sea level.
The following files are available from the FTP server:
ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/paleocean/relative_sea_level/
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rsl.readme - readme file
sealevel.* - 392 individual Relative Sea Level data files;
There are 392 files named sealevel.*, each containing data from one
site.
These files are located in the subdirectory sitefiles.
sealevel.dat - All Relative Sea Level data files, concatenated;
The file sealevel.dat contains radiocarbon-controlled relative sea level
histories from 392 sites.
rslsite.lst - list of sites and file names in rsl database;
A list of site names and locations can be found in the file rslsite.lst.
rslform.lst - FORTRAN code used to write sealevel.* data files 
