Open AccessThe highest coastline in south‐eastern Sweden
Author(s) -
AGRELL HARALD
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
boreas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.95
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1502-3885
pISSN - 0300-9483
DOI - 10.1111/j.1502-3885.1976.tb00258.x
Subject(s) - shore , geology , danish , physical geography , oceanography , drainage , archaeology , geography , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , biology
Data on the highest level of the Baltic Ice Lake in south‐eastern Sweden have been compiled from various modern investigations and a survey map has been drawn on the basis of the new topographical maps. The level regularly rises from c. 40 m a.s.l. in eastern Skåne to c. 1SS m a.s.l. in northern Östergötland, immediately before the final drainage of the Baltic Ice Lake at the Billingen Hill. The gradients of the oldest synchronous shorelines suggest that the outlet of the Ice Lake was situated all the time in the south, on Öresund, or south of the Danish islands.