Discussion
The process that explains the recent changes in the height of sea level in coastal areas of eastern and northern Canada and Scandinavi is
Answer: A
The rising coastlines of eastern and northern Canada and Scandinavia are explained by isostasy. The crust there was pressed down by the weight of the Pleistocene ice sheets, and since the ice melted it has been slowly rebounding as the mantle flows back beneath it.
The land is rising faster than the sea, so relative sea level continues to fall - by up to a centimetre a year in the Gulf of Bothnia.
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