The Eemian sea was a body of water located approximately where the Baltic sea is now during the last or Eemian interglacial, MIS 5e, roughly 130,000 to 115,000 BP. Sea level was 5 to 7 meters higher globally than it is today, due to the prior release of glacial water. Although “Eemian” rightly applies only to the north European glacial system, some scientists use the term in a wider sense to mean any high-level body of water in the last interglacial. The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, from 53 deg. ... Two ice core temperature records; the Eemian is at a depth of about 1500-1800 meters in the lower graph The Eemian interglacial era (known as the Sangamon era in North America, the Ipswichian interglacial in the UK, and the Riss-Würm interglacial in the Alps) is the second... Marine isotopic stages (MIS) are a division of the past glacial/interglacial periods based on oxygen isotope data reflecting temperature curves derived from data from deep sea cores. ... Before Present is a year numbering system, used for the far past times, relating dates to the year 1950. ... For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ... Glaciation, often called an ice age, is a geological phenomenon in which massive ice sheets form in the Arctic and Antarctic and advance toward the equator. ...

The early Eemian sea connected with the White sea along the line of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. Karelia was inundated and Lakes Ladoga and Onega were mere depressions in the shallow end of the Eemian sea. At the other end the sea connected more broadly to the North Sea. Much of north Europe was under shallow water. Scandinavia was an island. The salinity of the Eemian sea was comparable to that of the Atlantic. Scientists reach these conclusions from a study of types of microorganisms fossilized in the clay sediments laid down in the Eemian sea, and from the included pollen of Corylus, Carpinus and Betula. Barents Sea, the Kola Peninsula and the White Sea. ... White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal (Russian: Belomorsko-Baltiyskiy Kanal (BBK)), opened on August 2, 1933 is a ship canal that joins the White Sea and the Baltic Sea near St. ... Karelia - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Ladoga may refer to one of the following. ... Lake Onega (also known as Onego, Onezhskoe ozero (from Russian, Онежское озеро), and Onezhskoe lake, Finnish: Ääninen or Äänisjärvi) is a lake in the Russian Federation. ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... Scandinavia, Fennoscandia, and the Kola Peninsula. ... Salinity is the saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of water. ... The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one_fifth of its surface. ... SEM image of pollen grains from a variety of common plants: sunflower (Helianthus annuus), morning glory (Ipomea purpurea), hollyhock (Sildalcea malviflora), lily (Lilium auratum), primrose (Oenothera fruticosa), and castor bean (Ricinus communis). ... This article is about the tree; for other meanings of hazel, see Hazel (disambiguation). ... Species Carpinus betulus _ European Hornbeam Carpinus caroliniana - American Hornbeam Carpinus cordata - Sawa Hornbeam Carpinus fargesii - Farges Hornbeam Carpinus laxiflora - Aka-shide Hornbeam Carpinus japonica - Japanese Hornbeam Carpinus orientalis - Oriental Hornbeam Carpinus tschonoskii - Chonowskis Hornbeam Carpinus turczaninowii - Turkzaninovs Hornbeam The hornbeams (Carpinus) are a genus of relatively small... Species many species see text and classification Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. ...

During MIS 5e, the mean annual temperature was 3 deg. C higher than today. At its end, during the cooler prelude of 5d, c, b and a, the region continued to rise isostatically. Some water was recaptured in ice. Levels in the Eemian sea dropped and the opening to the White Sea was blocked. The post-Eemian brackish lake did not last long geologically speaking, but was covered totally with ice. The Weichselian glaciation starting fully in MIS 4, with an interstadial in 3 and a greatest extent in 2, was, at its maximum in 20,000-18,000 BP, more than 3km high. As the lake bed was only a few hundred m deep, no lake could have existed. The ice extended southward into north Europe as far as France and eastward as far as Poland. At its recession, the Baltic ice lake appeared. Isostasy is a term used in Geology to refer to the state of gravitational equilibrium between the Earths lithosphere and asthenosphere such that the tectonic plates float at an elevation which depends on their thickness and density. ... Brackish water is water that is saltier than fresh water, but not as salty as sea water. ...

External links

• Background to the BALTEEM Project
• Eemian at Peski