[gothic-l] Re: The Scandinavian Origin of the Goths and Other Germanic Peoples

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--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, dirk at s... wrote:
> very interesting points, but I am at a loss here. I would have
> thought that Jutland became separated from the Scandinavian
> peninsula around the same time as Britain became separated from
> the continent (some 10 to 12000 years ago).
> But I really don't know for sure.

I thought that:-
  c.10000 BC: Here the icecap started to melt, but the whole Baltic
area was still deep under ice. The sea was a long way below present
level: will someone tell me a best value for how far?
  c.6000 BC: Here the rising sea covered the last land bridge between
Britain and Europe: it was from East Anglia to the Hook of Holland,
not across the Straits of Dover.
  c.5000 BC: Here the icecap finished melting, and the sea reached
about its present level.
  After that the Danish Straits were very shallow and sometimes dry,
as the land around the Baltic Sea moved slowly up and down as the
earth's crust there slowly recovered from having been pushed down by
the weight of the Scandinavian ice cap: geologists call this effect
"isostasy".


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