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The geology of the Baltic Sea is characterized by having areas located both at the Baltic Shield of the East European Craton and in the Danish-North German-Polish Caledonides. Historical geologists make a distinction between the current Baltic Sea depression, formed in the Cenozoic era, and the much older sedimentary basins whose sediments are ...
The Northern Baltic Sea lies between the Stockholm area, southwestern Finland, and Estonia. The Western and Eastern Gotland basins form the major parts of the Central Baltic Sea or Baltic proper. The Bornholm Basin is the area east of Bornholm, and the shallower Arkona Basin extends from Bornholm to the Danish isles of Falster and Zealand.
The Western Gotland Basin contains Landsort Deep, which is the deepest spot of the Baltic sea (459 metres deep). The Gotland Basin is marked by the numbers 7, 8 and 10 in this map of the area's marine environment. The sediments in the Gotland Basin are important for studying the climate changes in northern Europe over the past 5,000 years.
Gulf of Bothnia. Coordinates: 63°N 20°E. Map of the Baltic Sea, showing the Gulf of Bothnia in the upper half. Satellite image of Fennoscandia in winter. The northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia, the Bothnian Bay, is covered with sea ice. The Gulf of Bothnia (/ ˈbɒθniə /; Finnish: Pohjanlahti; Swedish: Bottniska viken) is divided into the ...
View of the Bay of Mecklenburg from Salzhaff looking towards Fehmarn. Map of Mecklenburg Bay. The Bay of Mecklenburg (German: Mecklenburger Bucht or Mecklenburgische Bucht; Danish: Mecklenburg Bugt), also known as the Mecklenburg Bay or Mecklenburg Bight, is a long narrow basin making up the southwestern finger-like arm of the Baltic Sea, between the shores of Germany to the south and the ...
Eridanos (geology) The name Eridanos, derived from the ancient Greek Eridanos, was given by geologists to a river that flowed where the Baltic Sea is now. [1] Its river system is also known as the "Baltic River System". [2][3] The Eridanos began about 40 million years ago in the Eocene. By about 12 million years ago in the Miocene, the Eridanos ...
Map of the Salton Sea drainage area. The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline endorheic lake in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California in Mexico. The lake is about 15 by 35 miles (24 by ...
The river mouth of Świna at the Baltic Sea in Świnoujście, Poland Rugian coast east of Cape Arkona Wolin National Park, Poland. The Bay of Pomerania (Polish: Zatoka Pomorska [zaˈtɔ.ka pɔˈmɔr.ska]; German: Pommersche Bucht; Kashubian: Pòmòrskô Hôwinga) is a basin in the southwestern Baltic Sea, off the Pomeranian shores of Poland and Germany.