Ancylus Lake
| 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. |
Ancylus Lake is a name given by geologists to a large freshwater lake that existed in northern Europe approximately from 8,750 to 7,850 years BC, being in effect one of various predecessors to the modern Baltic Sea.