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Hurricane Sandy caught the public and policymakers off guard when it hit the United States' Atlantic Coast last fall. Because much of the storm's devastation was wrought by flooding in the aftermath, researchers have been paying attention to how climate change and sea-level rise may have played a role in the disaster and how those factors may impact the shoreline in the future. A new study has relied upon fossil records of marshland to reconstruct the changes in sea level along the New Jersey coast going back 10,000 years. [Source: University of Pennsylvania]
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