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K. Lambeck, A. Purcell / Quaternary Science Reviews 24 (2005) 1969–1988 1985

Mediterranean sea-level information will lead to im-
provedconstraints on fluctuations in ocean volume
during the Late Holocene interval.

6. Conclusions

The predicted sea levels at the four test sites are
comparedwith the observed evidence in Fig. 13 in which
the predictedvalues are basedon the nominal earth- and
ice-model parameters and on the global esl function
illustratedin Fig. 12.Agreement between the twois now
satisfactory at the Carmel coast, at the Peloponnisos sites
andat Versilia plain site, but for the Coˆ te d’Azur the
Fig. 12. The global ice volume equivalent sea-level function for the observations lie at the upper limit of the predicted range.
Late Holocene period(from Lambeck, 2002). Possibly, the global esl function reachedits present value

Fig. 13. Comparison of observed and predicted sea levels at four sites with the latter based on the nominal model parameters (E2, NE-2, NA-2),
Antarctic andAlpine glacier histories andthe modifiedLate Holocene esl function. The precision of the predictedvalues are calculatedas for Fig. 7b.