books.google.com - Scientists estimate that, until 1900, the water level of the Chesapeake Bay rose at the rate of three feet every thousand years. Alarmingly enough, the bay rose by one foot in the twentieth century alone, and for evidence of this dramatic change one need only observe the effects of rising water on the...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Disappearing_Islands_of_the_Chesapea.html?id=itFf6wHY_D4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake