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As the existing data on the location, number, and age of submerged Holocene wave-cut cliffs (submerged coastlines) in the Gulf of Gdańsk (SE Baltic Sea) are rather conflicting, earlier data were reanalysed and compared with recent information. Digital bathymetric and slope angle maps were developed from the modern 1:25,000, 1:50,000, and 1:100,000 nautical charts. The maximum slope lines were assumed to correspond to wave-cut cliff axes. A total of five axial lines of post-glacial wave-cut cliffs were identified: two dated to the Yoldia Sea (58–45 and 52–40 m), one assigned to the Ancylus Lake (38 m), and two dated to the Littorina Sea (29 and 21 m).
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Sivkov, V., Dorokhov, D., Ulyanova, M. (2011). Submerged Holocene Wave-Cut Cliffs in the South-eastern Part of the Baltic Sea: Reinterpretation Based on Recent Bathymetrical Data. In: Harff, J., Björck, S., Hoth, P. (eds) The Baltic Sea Basin. Central and Eastern European Development Studies (CEEDES). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17220-5_10
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