Yoldia Sea

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The Yoldia Sea was an early post-glacial brackish water stage of the Baltic basin that existed after the last Ice Age, named after the bivalve Yoldia arctica found in its sediments.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf brackish water basin
paleogeographic water body
post-glacial stage of the Baltic Sea
basin Baltic Sea
surface form: Baltic basin
characterizedBy Yoldia arctica shells in sediments
brackish fauna
marine transgression
post-glacial isostatic rebound
chronologicalPosition between Baltic Ice Lake and Ancylus Lake stages
connectedTo Atlantic Ocean
World Ocean
environment cold climate
subarctic conditions
followed Baltic Ice Lake
formedAfter Pleistocene epoch
surface form: Last Glacial Period

Fennoscandian Ice Sheet
surface form: Weichselian glaciation
geologicalAge early Holocene
hasCause eustatic sea-level rise
isostatic land uplift
retreat of continental ice sheet
hasEvidence marine clay deposits
microfossils in sediment cores
hasFossil Yoldia arctica
brackish-water molluscs
hasLanguageName Yoldiahavet (Swedish)
Yoldiameren (Finnish)
hasSediments clay
silt
locatedIn Baltic Sea coast region
surface form: Baltic region

Northern Europe
namedAfter Yoldia arctica
partOf Baltic Sea evolution
Baltic Sea history
Baltic Sea stages
post-glacial Baltic development
preceded Ancylus Lake
predecessor Baltic Ice Lake
replacedBy Ancylus Lake
salinity low salinity
studiedInDiscipline Quaternary geology
paleoclimatology
paleogeography
timePeriodEnd approximately 9,500 years before present
timePeriodStart approximately 10,300 years before present
waterType brackish water

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Baltic Ice Lake followedBy Yoldia Sea
Baltic Sea precededBy Yoldia Sea