Physical and chemical properties, 14C ages and palynology of sediment cores from the Western Baltic Sea

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Sea level related radiocarbon, palynological and stratigraphical data from sediment cores in the Western Baltic have been tested against the existing sea level curves for the region. The relative sea level rise curves for the beginning of the Holocene show no significant deviations between the Kiel, Mecklenburg und Lübeck Bays and hence do not support the previously reported differences in the averaged regional subsidence rates for this time interval. Local subsidence and upheaval due to salt tectonics probably played a greater role than previously suspected in the region. The sea level possibly stagnated around -28 m during the early Holocene before rising very rapidly to -14 m. The submarine terraces at -30 m and perhaps also at -27 m were formed during the lacustrine phase of the Western Baltic when the water levels were controlled by the main thresholds in the Great Belt.

Supplement to: Winn, Kyaw; Averdieck, Fritz-Rudolf; Erlenkeuser, Helmut; Werner, Friedrich (1986): Holocene sea level rise in the western Baltic and the question of isostatic subsidence. Meyniana, 38, 61-80

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.784896
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.2312/meyniana.1986.38.61
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.784896
Provenance
Creator Winn, Kyaw; Averdieck, Fritz-Rudolf; Erlenkeuser, Helmut ORCID logo; Werner, Friedrich
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1986
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Publication Series of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 3 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (9.815W, 54.044S, 15.108E, 55.411N); Western Baltic Sea; Baltic Sea; Bay of Kiel, Baltic Sea; Graet Belt Channel (Western Baltic); Falshoeft Channel, Kiel Bay; Great Belt, western Baltic Sea, off Denmark; Eckernförder Bucht; Wattenburg Channel, Kiel Bay; Fluegge Channel, Kiel Bay; Vejsnaes Shoal, Kiel Bay; Mecklenburg Bay; Neustadt-Luebeck Bay; Vejsnaes Channel, Kiel Bay; SW Sagas Bank, Mecklenburg Bay; Boknis Eck
Temporal Coverage Begin 1969-05-13T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1984-07-10T00:00:00Z