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Le
résultat de l'Oscillation Australe est que les alizés faiblissent, voire même
cèdent la place à des flux d'air de sens contraire. La tension que ces vents
exerçaient sur les eaux superficielles disparaît et la pente de la surface
océanique va s'inverser. Le reflux des eaux chaudes et salées se fait par l'intermédiaire
d'une onde, dite de Kelvin, qui met deux à trois mois pour traverser l'océan
Pacifique... |
The result of the Southern Oscillation is a slowing of the trade winds, which may even be replaced by air currents going in the opposite direction. The dragging of surface water by the trade winds ceases and the slope of the ocean's surface is reversed. The backward surge of warm, salty water occurs in what is known as a Kelvin wave, which takes two or three months to cross the Pacific Ocean... |
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La constitution
d'une calotte de glace provoque sous elle l'enfoncement de la lithosphère
dans la matière visqueuse du manteau sous-jacent qui, en refluant, soulève au
contraire les régions périphériques. Lors de la fonte de cette calotte, le
processus inverse se produit. |
The formation of an ice sheet causes the lithosphere underneath it to sink down into the underlying viscous mantle, which is then displaced, causing the surrounding areas to rise. When the ice sheet melts, the process is reversed. |
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On doit à
N. Petit-Maire et à J. Marchand une étude sur les effets qu'aurait une
élévation marine de 0,50 m sur la côte de la Camargue. Par simple submersion
passive, entre Fos et La Grande-Motte, s'étendrait en arrière d'un mince
cordon littoral sableux un vaste espace, large suivant les endroits de 6 à 12
km, inondé de façon permanente par la mer. |
N. Petit-Maire and J. Marchand conducted a study on the probable effects of a half-meter rise in sea level on the Camargue coast. Passive submergence alone would create a narrow barrier beach stretching from Fos to La Grande-Motte, with an enormous area behind it, varying in width from 6 to 12 km, permanently inundated by the sea. |
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Si
l'élévation du niveau marin reste lente, comme elle l'est aujourd'hui sauf là
où régionalement la subsidence l'aggrave, et si la topographie de
l'arrière-pays est basse, les marais maritimes peuvent par sédimentation
minérale et organique s'exhausser et migrer vers la terre, sans perdre de
leur extension (fig. 10). On l'a constaté, par exemple, sur la côte
sud-orientale de l'Essex, en Angleterre, où l'élévation du niveau marin, ici
de 3 mm par an, est compensée par un dépôt de vase du même ordre de grandeur,
mais le front du marais a reculé de 40 m depuis 1955. Cependant, si les marais
maritimes sont limités sur leur bord interne par des falaises ou des
aménagements que l'on décide de protéger de la situation amphibie qui les
menace, leur rétrogression est rendue impossible. Ils sont alors condamnés à
rétrécir et à disparaître. |
If sea level continues to rise slowly -- as it is now doing, except in areas where subsidence is amplifying it -- and if the topography just inland is low-lying, then the saltmarshes will be able to migrate to higher ground through mineral and organic sedimentation without losing any areal extent (fig. 10). This sort of migration has been observed on the southeast coast of Essex, in England, where sea level is rising 3 mm per year. The rise is balanced out by silt deposition occurring at the same rate, but the edge of the saltmarsh has receded 40 meters since 1955. However, if the saltmarshes are blocked by cliffs on the landward side or by developments that are being protected from the advancing water, then landward migration is impossible, and they are condemned to shrink and disappear. |
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