Coastline Changes: Interrelation of Climate and Geological Processes

The Baltic Sea coast—A model of interrelations among geosphere, climate, and anthroposphere
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Published:January 01, 2007
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Jan Harff, Wolfram Lemke, Reinhard Lampe, Friedrich Lüth, Harald Lübke, Michael Meyer, Franz Tauber, Ulrich Schmölcke, 2007. "The Baltic Sea coast—A model of interrelations among geosphere, climate, and anthroposphere", Coastline Changes: Interrelation of Climate and Geological Processes, Jan Harff, William W. Hay, Daniel M. Tetzlaff
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Coastline changes are the result of the interaction between geosystems and climate. Vertical isostatic movement of Earth's crust competes with the eustatic sea-level variation controlled by changing climatic conditions. The resulting relative sea-level variation has a vital impact on the anthroposphere along the sea coast. This interrelation can be studied in an exceptional manner on the southern Baltic Sea. Here, isostasy and eustasy have shaped the picture of the coastal areas since the last glaciation. The northern Scandinavian part has been uplifting constantly since the last deglaciation, causing a regression of the sea. In contrast, in the south, the Littorina...
- archaeology
- Atlantic Ocean
- Baltic Sea
- Cenozoic
- climate
- coastal environment
- crust
- ecosystems
- eustasy
- geostatistics
- glaciation
- global
- Holocene
- isostasy
- Mesolithic
- Neolithic
- North Atlantic
- paleogeography
- prediction
- Quaternary
- regression
- sea-level changes
- sediments
- statistical analysis
- Stone Age
- transgression
- transport
- uplifts
- geosystems
- Littorina Transgression
- Wismar Bight