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    the ice sheet of the British Isles at about thousand years later. At this point the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet formed part of a larger Eurasian ice sheet complex—a...
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    level rise came from the Antarctic Ice Sheet, the Laurentide Ice Sheet, or the Fennoscandian and Barents Sea Ice Sheets. The technique of sea-level fingerprinting...
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    small ice fields and ice caps in the Scandinavian Mountains before the ice spread eastward. In northwestern Russia the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet reached...
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    mountain-centered ice caps and ice fields. The ice fields from which the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet grew out multiple times most likely resembled today's ice fields...
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    ice sheet that covered Finland intermittently during the Quaternary grew out from the Scandinavian Mountains. The central parts of the Fennoscandian ice...
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    postglacial time or if it evolved from cliff-like forms sculpted by the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet. In Gotland 20th century cliff retreat rates have been estimated...
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    Geothermal evidence of very low glacial temperatures on a rim of the Fennoscandian ice sheet. Geophysical Research Letters, 31(7). Ziagos, J. P., & Blackwell...
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    the lake served likely as a channel that concentrated ice of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet into an ice stream that fed glacier lobes further east. Deglaciation...
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    Last Glacial Maximum (category Ice ages)
    the Baltic Shield, and in Russia in particular, the LGM ice margin of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet was highly lobate. The main LGM lobes of Russia followed...
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    Quaternary period. As the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet melted and retreated during the end of the last ice age a large but ephemeral ice-dammed lake formed in...
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  • distinctive curved back and tanged points appeared as well. As the Fennoscandian ice sheet continued to shrink, plants and people began to repopulate the...
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    part of Fennoscandia to be deglaciated. The last remnants of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet melted there slightly after 9,700 years BP. The mountain chain...
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    is now believed to have formed by meltwater streams under the Fennoscandian ice sheet. Nationally, Degerfors is best known for the football team Degerfors...
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  • maximum glaciations, i.e. at times of confluence of the British and Fennoscandian ice-sheets in the intervening North Sea. Urstromtäler should not be confused...
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  • 000 years ago. During periods of glaciation the British and the Fennoscandian ice sheets trapped water, preventing it from flowing north, and together with...
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    part of Sweden. During the Ice Ages, the Kvarken region was located underneath the Fennoscandian ice sheet. When the ice sheet retreated from the area around...
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  • the Ice Ages of the past 2-3 million years, the High Coast was repeatedly covered by continental ice sheet, including the Fennoscandian ice sheet until...
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    The Baltic Shield (or Fennoscandian Shield) is a segment of the Earth's crust belonging to the East European Craton, representing a large part of Fennoscandia...
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    000–17,000 years ago the Fennoscandian ice sheet began to shrink gradually. The ice sheet's northward retreat brought the ice-front to the area of Sommen...
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    British-Irish Sea, Fennoscandian, Laurentide, Barents-Kara, Patagonian, Innuitian ice sheets and parts of the Antarctic ice sheet. At the onset of deglaciation...
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    Toucanne S, Lericolais G, Bard E. Abrupt drainage cycles of the Fennoscandian Ice sheet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (17), 6682-6687...
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  • oscillated up and down like a pendulum losing momentum after the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet melted. Her insistence on the validity of the theory at the Geological...
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    ice marginal zone on the Kola Peninsula, northwest Russia: a key component for reconstructing the palaeoglaciology of the northeastern Fennoscandian Ice...
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    of the British-Irish Sea, Fennoscandian, Laurentide, Barents-Kara, Patagonian, Innuitian and parts of the Antarctic ice sheets. At the onset of deglaciation...
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  • Karlatou-Charalampopoulou, Artemis; Wohlfarth, Barbara (17 November 2015). "Fennoscandian freshwater control on Greenland hydroclimate shifts at the onset of...
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    or extend across vast Arctic regions. The ground beneath glaciers and ice sheets is not usually defined as permafrost, so on land, permafrost is generally...
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  • Finnish-Russian border. The scoured area and other zones made up of crystalline Fennoscandian Shield rocks (northern and western Baltic Sea) have experienced overall...
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    Svante; Onkamo, Päivi; Haak, Wolfgang (27 November 2018). "Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe". Nature...
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    down to a peneplain long ago. The bedrock of Finland belongs to the Fennoscandian Shield and was formed by a succession of orogenies during the Precambrian...
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  • enigmatic Saint Bathans Mammal. Microbial life in the igneous crust of the Fennoscandian Shield shifted from being dominated by methanogens to being primarily...
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