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Hm? You could do a search, but here is an article: https://www.discoversormland.com/blog/?postglacial-rebound https://www.discoversormland.com/blog/?postglacial
by dsign 1y ago
Hm? You could do a search, but here is an article: https://www.discoversormland.com/blog/?postglacial-rebound https://www.discoversormland.com/blog/?postglacial-rebound . Another fun exercise is to simply look at Google maps. If you squint just right, you’ll see extremely flat valleys (ocean bottom) punctuated by old islands.
I live 300 meters from the present coastline and have toured the area a bit. There are telltale signs everywhere, including towers and docks that were built at the waterline sometime AC and that now stand a fair bit inland.
- danaris 1y agoI'm aware of postglacial rebound. It doesn't account for what you described, which is that "most of Scandinavia is recently emerged". I did, in fact, do some quick searching myself before writing my previous reply, just to make sure I wasn't missing something stupidly obvious, and the Wikipedia article on Scandinavian prehistory[0] confirmed that people have been living there for at least several thousand years. They've even been farming there since roughly 4000 BC. So no: "most of Scandinavia" wasn't under the ocean "a few hundred years ago". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_prehistory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_prehistory