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• Language: English
• Subjects: White Sea; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.476.8503; http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr20/nr20_p035-038.pdf

co-operated for more than two decades on unravelling the history of the south-western part of the Baltic Sea, mainly based on shallow seismic profiling, sampling of sediment cores and analyses of core samples (Jensen et al. 2002). Here we report on some results from one of the latest joint cruises with the German research vessel Maria S. Merian. The Baltic Sea is one of the largest brackish-water seas in the world. However, during wide periods of the Quaternary, the Baltic Sea area was either covered by the Scandinavian ice sheet, or was a lake or a land area. Well-dated marine deposits are only known from the last interglacial stage (the Eemian) and from the Holocene. During the Eemian, connections to the Baltic Sea were found via Karelia to the White Sea, and via Denmark and northern Germany to the North Sea (Funder et al. 2002). During the Holocene, a connection to the North Sea was first established during the Yoldia Sea stage via south-central Sweden, and later during the Littori-na Sea stage via the Danish/German/Swedish straits (Björck