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was 5 to 7 metres higher globally than it is today, due to the release of glacial water in the early stage of the interglacial. Although "Eemian" rightly applies only to the northern European glacial system, some scientists use the term in a wider sense to mean any high-level body of water in the
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more than 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) high. As the lake bed was only a few hundred metres deep, no lake could have existed. The ice extended southward into northern Europe as far as France and eastward as far as Poland. At its recession, the
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of the Eemian Sea was comparable to that of the Atlantic. Scientists reach these conclusions from a study of types of micro-organisms fossilized in the clay sediments laid down in the Eemian Sea, and from the included
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During MIS 5e, the mean annual temperature was 3 °C higher than today. At its end, during the cooler prelude of MIS 5d, c, b and a, the region continued to rise
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glaciation starting fully in MIS 4, with an interstadial in 3 and a greatest extent in 2, produced, at its maximum in 20,000-18,000 BP, an
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were mere depressions in the shallow eastern end of the Eemian sea. At the other end the sea connected to the
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Sea level was 5 to 7 metres higher during MIS 5e, resulting in submersion of much of the Baltic region.
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more broadly than it presently does. Much of northern Europe was under shallow water.
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lake did not last long geologically speaking, but was covered totally with ice. The
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Body of water existing over 100,000 years ago near the modern Baltic Sea
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was a body of water located approximately where the
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