Coastlines of the Baltic Sea – Zones of Competition Between Geological Processes and a Changing Climate: Examples from the Southern Baltic - The Baltic Sea Basin - page 156

Fig. 7.5 Left panel : Differences of earth elevations (RSL 7700 ,RSL 5000 ,RSL 3000 ) to present time
elevation of the Baltic Sea area. Right panel : Palaeogeographic scenarios (palaeo-digital elevation
scenarios DEM 7700 ,DEM 5000 ,DEM 3000 ) used to generate Fig. 7.2 . The comparison of DEM 7700 ,
DEM 5000 ,andDEM 3000 shows clearly the synchronous regression of the sea at the northern rim
of the Baltic Basin and transgression at its southern coast. The process of transgression has been
systematically analysed within the frame of a research project SINCOS (Sinking Coasts) between
2003 and 2008 (Harff and Lüth 2009 )
(representing the uplifting Fennoscandian Shield) and curves 1-4 (standing for the
glacio-isostatically subsiding belt) are evident.
For the investigated time span three time points have been selected: 7700 years
BP at the early stage of the brackish Baltic Sea history, 5000 years BP when the