Publication Date:
2015-03-16
Description:
The Baltic Sea may be taken as a standard inland sea under wet climatic conditions, and the great diversity found in its sedimentary features makes it an excellent model for investigations.
That sea offers a high complexity of its geography as well as its bathymetry (shallow-water sills, numerous annex basins). The shallow depth of the straits, joinde to the alternate winds system give rise to peculiar hydrological conditions (water movements, thermal stratification, vertical salinity gradients, reducing environments, and so on ...). The wind-rised currents disturb largely the bathymetric distribution of the deposits (transportation, vanning, resedimentation).
Fast changes in salinity alter the benthos composition too, in time as in space. Eustatic and epeirogenic movements, in consequence of the shallow depth of the straits, strongly change ecological and sedimentary characteristics. These data may be useful for the study of paleo-basins of the same type.
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