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Don,
The information may be found in Butler chapter 7 : Giza in Architectural Elevation. Quote from p.123 : 'The calculation errors are within known eustatic changes in sea level for middle and later Holocene times (i.e., more recent than 6,500 BP), with or without tectonic adjustments.' As a geologist, Butler was familiar with the facts regarding Holocene sea level curves.
To put it simply, mean sea level for the Eastern Mediterranean has not changed much in 5000 years.
Butler states : 'Lehner observed that the Great Pyramid's present reduced summit is about 197.24 m. above sea level. This summit is believed to have been 9.45 m. higher.' This gives a vertical distance of roughly 394.75 cubits. Of course this figure alone means little, it is only when vertical dimensions in the other pyramids are analyzed that a convincing mean datum can be proposed, and this appears to be 114 cubits (or 59.6 m.) below Khufu base : presumably a 'sacred' quantity (?), previously employed at Saqqara and Dashur.
In a later part of the same chapter Butler discusses how water levels were probably measured.
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