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The sea has repeatedly invaded large portions of the continents and then subsequently retreated. This part of the earth’s history is an extremely monotonous one, but this very monotony, this continuous recurrence of the same events, constitutes one of its most important aspects. Why does the sea invade the continents, and why does the water later withdraw to the oceanic receptacles, only to advance again afterwards? In other words, in geological terminology, — what is the origin of the periodic trans- and regressions?
“We have to account for periodic transgressional seas and orogenesis upon an enormous scale and clearly associated with vertical continental movements”. (J. Joly)
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Umbgrove, J.H.F. (1971). Oscillations of the Sea-Level. In: The Pulse of the Earth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3017-5_5
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