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Cape Cod Facts

Cape Cod's Glacial Formation

Cape Cod was formed by climate change, sea-level rise, and coastal erosion in a process that began more than 14 thousand years ago, and those same forces continue to shape the 65-mile long peninsula today.  If scientists' projections about global climate change are correct, sea-level rise and coastal erosion could be greatly accelerated in the coming years, potentially leading to an even faster pace of change for Cape Cod shorelines.
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Penn State University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Rhode Island, and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science are collaborating with the U.S. EPA
and private and public stakeholders of the mid- and upper-Atlantic region. Support for CARA is provided by the Global Change Research Program,
Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Cooperative Agreement R-83053301).

Last updated:  Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:17 PM