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Evolution of the Baltic Sea
Pleistocene
Eemian Sea (130,000–115,000 BCE) Ice sheets and seas (115,000–14,000 BCE)
Holocene
Baltic Ice Lake (14,000–9,670 BCE) Yoldia Sea (9,670–8,750 BCE) Ancylus Lake (8,750–7,850 BCE) Initial Littorina Sea (7,850–6,050 BCE) Mastogloia Sea (6,050–5,550 BCE) Littorina Sea (7,500–2,050 BCE) Modern Baltic Sea (2,050 BCE–present)
Sources. Dates are not BP.
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Littorina Sea (also Litorina Sea) is a geological brackish water stage of the Baltic Sea, which existed around 7500–4000 BP and followed the Mastogloia Sea, a transitional stage of the Ancylus Lake.

This stage and form of the body of water is named after common periwinkle (Littorina littorea), then a prevailing mollusc in the waters, which indicates its salinity.

A transgression of the Baltic approximately 4500 BP widened its ocean link, allowing it to reach a peak of salinity during the warmer Atlantic period of European climatology. At this peak, the sea bore twice the volume of water and covered 26.5% more land than it does today. As the period ended, the features of the modern coast appeared, including lagoons, spits, and dunes. Notable exceptions include steep terraces such as the Øresund where the recession of sea level exposes less dry land.

During the period, temperate deciduous forest crept north to cover the littoral hinterland^{[dubious – discuss]}.

Bibliography

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Wefer, Gerold (2002). Climate Development and History of the North Atlantic Realm. Springer. pp. 217–219. ISBN 3-540-43201-9.

Pleistocene proglacial lakes and related seas

Africa

Antarctica

Lake Washburn

Asia

Europe

Baltic Sea	Ancylus Lake Baltic Ice Lake Littorina Sea Mastogloia Sea Yoldia Sea
Russia	Lake Komi
Great Britain	Lake Harrison Lake Lapworth Lake Pickering

North America

Nelson River drainage	Lake Agassiz Lake Bassano Lake Souris Proglacial lakes of Minnesota
James Bay drainage	Lake Ojibway Tyrrell Sea
Great Lakes	Champlain Sea Lake Admiralty Lake Algonquin (Multiple basins) Lake Arkona Lake Chicago Lake Chippewa Lake Dana Lake Duluth Early Lake Erie Lake Frontenac Lake Houghton (glacial) Glacial Lake Iroquois Lake Lundy Lake Maumee Lake Minong Nipissing Great Lakes (Multiple basins) Early Lake Ontario Lake Saginaw Lake Stanley Lake Tonawanda Lake Warren Lake Wayne Lake Whittlesey
Columbia River system	Lake Allison Glacial Lake Columbia Lake Lewis Glacial Lake Missoula
Great Basin system	Lake Bonneville Lake Lahontan
Puget Sound system	Glacial Lake Hood Lake Nisqually Lake Puyallup Glacial Lake Russell Glacial Lake Sammamish Lake Skokomish
Upper Missouri River	Lake Chouteau Lake Circle Lake Cut Bank Lake Glendive Lake Great Falls Lake Jordan (Montana) Lake McKenzie Lake Musselshell
Upper Mississippi drainage	Lake Kankakee Kankakee Outwash Plain Lake Wisconsin
Ohio drainage	Lake Monongahela Lake Tight Teays River
Hudson valley	Lake Albany Lake Passaic
New England	Lake Cape Cod Lake Connecticut Lake Hitchcock Lake Merrimack Lake Nantucket Sound Lake Stowe
California	Lake Cahuilla Lake Corcoran Lake Harper Lake Manix Lake Manly Lake Modoc Lake Mojave Lake Panamint Lake Russell Lake Tecopa Lake Thompson
Rio Grande rift	Lake Alamosa Lake Estancia Lake Palomas Lake San Agustín
Alaska	Lake Atna

South America

Summary

List of prehistoric lakes