Baltic Ice Lake

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The Baltic Ice Lake was a large proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last Ice Age in the area now occupied by the northern Baltic Sea.


Statements (46)
Predicate Object
instanceOf geological formation
prehistoric lake
proglacial lake
basinCountry Estonia
Finland
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Russia
Sweden
boundedBy Fennoscandian Ice Sheet
drainageType catastrophic drainage event
drainedInto North Sea
drainedThrough Central Swedish lowland
existedAtEndOf last Ice Age
followedBy Ancylus Lake
Yoldia Sea
formedAs ice-dammed lake
formedDuring Late Pleistocene
Weichselian glaciation
hasEffectOn isostatic rebound patterns in Fennoscandia
postglacial shoreline displacement
hasGeologicalEvidence glaciolacustrine sediments
shoreline formations
hasProcess glacial retreat
ice-margin oscillations
rapid water-level fall at drainage
hasRemnant deltaic deposits along former shorelines
raised beaches in Baltic region
locatedIn Baltic region
Fennoscandian Shield
Northern Europe
maximumExtent Gulf of Bothnia region
Gulf of Finland region
area of present-day northern Baltic Sea
namedAfter Baltic Sea
partOf Baltic Sea basin
Baltic Sea evolution
precededBy Baltic Sea ice sheet cover
separatedFrom Atlantic Ocean
studiedInDiscipline Quaternary geology
glaciology
paleogeography
timePeriod approximately 13,000–10,300 years before present
waterSource meltwater from Fennoscandian Ice Sheet
waterType freshwater

Referenced by (5)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Ancylus Lake
Baltic Sea
precededBy
Yoldia Sea
followed
Ancylus Lake ("Baltic Ice Lake – Yoldia Sea – Ancylus Lake – Littorina Sea")
partOfSequence
Yoldia Sea
predecessor

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