... years have fluctuated and there is evidence to suggest that during the last 4000 years, sea levels have been higher than they are at present and that there is a temporal connection between changes in sea level, ice volume and global climate. He also identified distinctly nine marine transgressions and possibly a tenth that occurred in the dark ages. As for the implications for coastal development, Tooley states that there are more localised studies and more critical analysis of the field data needed. Ian Shennon, Michael J Tooley, Martin J Davis, and B Andrew Haggart, 1983: Analysis and interpretation of Holocene sea level data, Nature, 302: 404-406. In previous studies, due to the misinterpretation of definitions and methodologies that were not wholly accepted, the objectives of the International Correlation Programme Project 61 were not fulfilled. This study aims to offer a method by which the data sets from northwest England ...

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