Eemian Sea (130,000–115,000 BC) Ice sheets and seas (115,000–12,600 BC)
Holocene
Baltic Ice Lake (12,600–10,300 BC) Yoldia Sea (10,300–9,500 BC) Ancylus Lake (9,500–8,000 BC) Mastogloia Sea (8,000–7,500 BC) Littorina Sea (7,500–4,000 BC) Modern Baltic Sea (4,000 BC–present)
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Ancylus Lake is a name given by geologists to a large freshwater lake that existed in northern Europe approximately from 9500 to 8000 years BC being in effect one of various predecessors to the modern Baltic Sea.
land bridge formed between Lake Vänern and the AncylusLake effectively making Lake Vänern a separate basin. The AncylusLake existed from approximately...
River Svir. Between 9,500 and 9,100 BP, during the transgression of AncylusLake, the next freshwater stage of the Baltic, Ladoga certainly became part...
in the genus Ancylus include: Ancylus aduncus A. A. Gould, 1847 † Ancylus alutae Jekelius, 1932 Ancylus ashangiensis Brown, 1965 Ancylus benoitianus Bourguignat...
8000 years ago following the AncylusLake stage and preceding the Littorina Sea stage. Towards its demise, the AncylusLake was falling, having partly eroded...
before the acceleration of glacial melting. The Baltic Ice Lake, the Yoldia Sea, the AncylusLake and the Littorina Sea are four recognized stages in the...
large giant's kettles. Sveafallen was long held to be the outlet of the AncylusLake, a fresh-water predecessor to the Baltic Sea. The site was first discovered...
into existence 9000–8900 years ago when post-glacial rebound made the AncylusLake that occupied the Baltic depression lose its outlets around Gothenburg...
the modern Baltic Sea. After the Baltic Ice Lake came the Yoldia Sea (10,300–9,500 BP), the AncylusLake (9,500–8,000 BP), the Mastogloia Sea (8,000–7...
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, 10,300–9500 Ancylus...
Yoldia Stage, after the Yoldia Sea, then the Ancylus Stage, after the AncylusLake in turn named after Ancylus fluviatilis, a small fresh-water gastropod...
freshwater lake, in palaeological contexts referred to as AncylusLake, which is identifiable in the freshwater fauna found in sediment cores. The lake was filled...
recession, the Baltic Ice Lake appeared. Baltic Ice Lake, 12,600–10,300 (years before present) Yoldia Sea, 10,300–9500 AncylusLake, 9,500–8,000 Mastogloia...
Baltic Sea changed into the AncylusLake. Its surface was originally about 60 metres above the current sea level. The AncylusLake formed into the salty Littorina...
7500–4000 BP and followed the Mastogloia Sea, a transitional stage of the AncylusLake. This stage and form of the body of water is named after common periwinkle...
Studies were conducted on 16 sections of buried organic matter (pre-AncylusLake and pre-Littorina Sea) and associated Stone Age cultural layers in the...
same time in one piece. The items were sunk to the bottom clay of the AncylusLake that existed during that period, most likely in an accident that made...
his work on varves. In 1890 De Geer was the first to apply the name AncylusLake to the Baltic paleolake discovered by Henrik Munthe. He subsequently...
Baltic Sea AncylusLake, freshwater period of the Baltic Sea Lake Harrison in the Midlands in England Lake Lapworth in Shropshire in England Lake Orcadie...
remnant of the time following the last ice age (once a fjord of the AncylusLake). The town is located approximately 380 km west of Stockholm, 250 km...
forests were established. Around 9000 BP AncylusLake, another stage of the Baltic Sea, retreated, and many lowland lakes were also isolated in depressions formed...
ice sheet in Denmark, Germany and Western Poland (Sławskie Lake District and Leszczyńskie Lake District). In Eastern Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Pskov...
Lake Komsomolskoye is a lake in the north of the Leningrad Region Priozersky District, in the middle of the Karelian Isthmus of north western Russia. Until...
water body from the ocean again and Yoldia Sea turned into the AncylusLake. This lake lasted until 10,000 years before present when a new connection...
Gotland was fully summerged in the waters of the proto-Baltic Sea. The Ancylus and Litorina transgressions left marks in form of beaches. These beaches...
his 1886 discovery of Ancylus fluviatilis fossils in Gotland Munthe proposed in 1887 the existence of the AncylusLake, a lake that would prove "the most...
from the European flounder shortly after the Baltic Sea had formed from AncylusLake (circa 8,000 years ago), while the widespread European flounder invaded...
Glacial Lake Albany was a prehistoric North American proglacial lake that formed during the end of the Wisconsinan glaciation. It existed between 15,000...
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