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Topic: Lake Ancylus


  
  Baltic Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Despite the influx of salt water in the lower levels, the Baltic is still more of a lake or river than a sea.
Many of the stages are named after marine animals (e.g., the Littorina mollusk) that are clear markers of changing water temperatures and salinity.
Eemian sea, 130,000-115,000 BP Baltic ice lake, 12,600-10,300 BP Yoldia sea, 10,300-9500 BP Ancylus lake, 9500-8000 BP Mastogloia sea 8000 BP-7500 BP Littorina sea, 7500-4000 BP Post-littorina sea 4000 BP-current
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 Baltic Sea
Since the Viking age, the Scandinavians have called it "the Eastern Lake", but Saxo Grammaticus recorded an older name: Grandvik, which implies that the Vikings, correctly, regarded it as an inlet of the sea.
The Baltic Sea is very shallow, and because the straits of Denmark are quite narrow, the waters of the Baltic are not regularly exchanged with the cold fresh waters of the Atlantic.
The flow of the rivers into the Baltic is quite high, however, and as a result the water of the Baltic is somewhere between a lake and sea, known as brackish water.
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