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    The Baltic Ice Lake is a name given by geologists to a freshwater lake that evolved in the Baltic Sea basin as glaciers retreated from that region at...
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    what are now the large lakes of Sweden, and the White Sea-Arctic Sea. Eemian Sea, 130,000–115,000 (years ago) Baltic Ice Lake, 12,600–10,300 Yoldia Sea...
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    took place in the Lake Ladoga basin between 12,500 and 11,500 radiocarbon years BP. Lake Ladoga was initially part of the Baltic Ice Lake (70–80 m. above...
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  • Yoldia Sea (category History of the Baltic Sea)
    geologists to a variable brackish water stage in the Baltic Sea basin that prevailed after the Baltic Ice Lake was drained to sea level during the Weichselian...
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    The Battle on the Ice, also known as the Battle of Lake Peipus (German: Schlacht auf dem Peipussee or am Peipussee) or Battle of Lake Chud (Russian: битва...
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  • the ice sheet and the southern shores that were free of glacier ice. This accumulation of freshwater constituted a lake known as the Baltic Ice Lake. This...
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  • BC being in effect one of various predecessors to the modern Baltic Sea. The Ancylus Lake replaced the Yoldia Sea after the latter had been severed from...
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    freshwater taxa such as Mysis and Salvelinus to lakes like Sommen that were never connected to the Baltic Ice Lake. The survival of these cold-water taxa into...
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    lakes of the South Swedish highlands, like Lake Sommen, that were never connected to the sea or the Baltic Ice Lake. This have led to theories that claim a...
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  • on lakes Lake ice, in the cryosphere Baltic Ice Lake, retreated at the end of the Pleistocene Wenham Lake Ice Company, harvested and exported ice from...
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    at the end of the last glaciation, as an outflow channel from the Baltic Ice Lake to the Atlantic Ocean and nowadays it has the largest drainage basin...
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    system left by the ice age in Southern Finland. It is a large terminal moraine formation that formed in front of the Baltic ice lake during the Younger...
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    Eemian Sea (category History of the Baltic Sea)
    its recession, the Baltic Ice Lake appeared. Baltic Ice Lake, 12,600–10,300 (years before present) Yoldia Sea, 10,300–9500 Ancylus Lake, 9,500–8,000 Mastogloia...
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    lake in northwestern Russia, on the territory of the Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast and Vologda Oblast. It belongs to the basin of the Baltic Sea...
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    The Baltic Sea campaigns were conducted by Axis and Allied naval forces in the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland and the connected...
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    the government in force. Toompea first emerged as an island from the Baltic Ice Lake around 10,000 years ago. Due to steady post-glacial rebound it became...
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  • created about 1700 million years ago. As the ice age came to an end, the ice melted away creating the Baltic Ice Lake. This covered most of what is now mainland...
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    Vättern (redirect from Lake Wetter)
    glacial period around 10,000 BP. It became a minor bay of the Baltic ice lake. Most of the lake's relict species (like the Arctic char) date from that time...
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    large lake dammed by the surrounding ice sheet. During further deglaciation, at the time of the Baltic Ice Lake, an early high water stage of the Baltic Sea...
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  • proglacial lake formed in the vicinity of the present-day Russian Komi Republic White Sea Ice Lake, freshwater period of the White Sea Baltic Ice Lake, freshwater...
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    than 150 people were feared dead. Around 9500 BC the Baltic Ice Lake was tapped on water as the ice front retreated north of mount Billingen. 1996 eruption...
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    Espoo (section Ice hockey)
    time, what is now the Baltic Sea was in a so-called Yoldia Sea phase, which had formed when the surface of the Baltic Ice Lake had lowered tens of metres...
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    Ocean, with Lake Onega, which is further connected to the Baltic Sea. Until 1961, it was called by its original name: the Stalin White Sea–Baltic Canal...
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    Kargaya, Omedu, Tagajõgi and Alajõgi. The lake is drained by only one river, the Narva, into the Baltic Sea. The lake contains 29 islands, with a total area...
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    Sommen (category Lakes of Östergötland County)
    during the early history of the lake. One theory claims that aquatic species were transferred from the Baltic Ice Lake through a natural lock system in...
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    The Baltic Shield (or Fennoscandian Shield) is a segment of the Earth's crust belonging to the East European Craton, representing a large part of Fennoscandia...
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  • Mastogloia Sea (category History of the Baltic Sea)
    prehistoric stages of the Baltic Sea in its development after the last ice age. This took place c. 8000 years ago following the Ancylus Lake stage and preceding...
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    collapse of ice sheets. In Europe, glacial erosion and isostatic sinking from the weight of ice made the Baltic Sea, which before the Ice Age was all...
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  • Older Dryas (category Ice ages)
    the Baltic ice lake, which was truncated by the edge of the glacier. Species had access to Denmark and southern Sweden. Most of Finland and the Baltic countries...
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    Jutland were ice-free, and a large part of what is today the North Sea was dry land connecting Jutland with Britain (see Doggerland). The Baltic Sea, with...
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