Back Литориново море Bulgarian Mar de Littorina Catalan Littorinahavet Danish Litorina Maro Esperanto Litoriinameri Estonian Litorinameri Finnish Mer à Littorines French Mar Littorina Italian ლიტორინის ზღვა Georgian Litorinos jūra Lithuanian
| Evolution of the Baltic Sea |
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| Pleistocene |
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Eemian Sea (130,000–115,000 BCE) Ice sheets and seas (115,000–14,000 BCE) |
| Holocene |
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Baltic Ice Lake (14,000–9,670 BCE) Yoldia Sea (9,670–8,750 BCE) Ancylus Lake (8,750–7,850 BCE) Mastogloia Sea (Initial Littorina Sea} (7,850–6,550 BCE) Littorina Sea (6,550–2,050 BCE) Modern Baltic Sea (2,050 BCE–present) |
| Sources. Dates are not BP. |
Littorina Sea (also Litorina Sea) is a geological brackish water stage of the Baltic Sea, which existed around 8500–4000 BP and followed the Mastogloia Sea (initial Littorina Sea), a transitional stage from the Ancylus Lake.[1]
This stage and form of the body of water is named after common periwinkle (Littorina littorea), then a prevailing mollusc in the waters, which indicates its salinity.[2]
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- ^ Rosentau et al. 2021, 2. Regional setting.
- ^ Wefer 2002.