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.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geological formation
→
prehistoric lake → proglacial lake → |
| basinCountry |
Estonia
→
Finland → Latvia → Lithuania → Poland → Russia → Sweden → |
| boundedBy |
Fennoscandian Ice Sheet
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| drainageType |
catastrophic drainage event
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| drainedInto |
North Sea
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| drainedThrough |
Central Swedish lowland
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| existedAtEndOf |
last Ice Age
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| followedBy |
Ancylus Lake
→
Yoldia Sea → |
| formedAs |
ice-dammed lake
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| 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
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| partOf |
Baltic Sea basin
→
Baltic Sea evolution → |
| precededBy |
Baltic Sea ice sheet cover
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| separatedFrom |
Atlantic Ocean
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| studiedInDiscipline |
Quaternary geology
→
glaciology → paleogeography → |
| timePeriod |
approximately 13,000–10,300 years before present
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| waterSource |
meltwater from Fennoscandian Ice Sheet
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| waterType |
freshwater
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Referenced by (5)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Ancylus Lake
→
Baltic Sea → |
precededBy |
|
Yoldia Sea
→
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followed |
|
Ancylus Lake
("Baltic Ice Lake – Yoldia Sea – Ancylus Lake – Littorina Sea")
→
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partOfSequence |
|
Yoldia Sea
→
|
predecessor |