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(see box, pp. 363-4). The shape of the British Isles in the unlikely event of complete
melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 2
Global zones of probable sea-level variations since 15,000
BP: I, late Pleistocene ice sheets zone of isostatic recovery; I-II
transition, complex ice sheet margins experiencing both isostatic
and eustatic changes, and particularly appropriate for Britain; II,
ice sheet periphery zone; III, eustatic submergence beyond ice
limits; IV-VI, regimes of oceanic submergence/emergence.
Source: After Clark et al. (1978).
