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Ten localities with well-developed late Postglacial beaches are discussed. After photo-documentation from the air the localities were levelled in the field. By means of archaeological data and graphical correlation in a shoreline diagram the age of the ridges is calculated. It is shown that a period of at least 20 years per beach ridge is common both where the land uplift is great and where it is smaller. At some localities the period may be even shorter. Obviously no tectonic movements can be responsible for this periodicity. Hence the explanation seems to be cyclic variations in climate.
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Philip, A. (1984). Late Postglacial Beach Ridges on the Island of Gotland, Sweden, as Indicators of a Probable Periodicity in the Climate. In: Mörner, NA., Karlén, W. (eds) Climatic Changes on a Yearly to Millennial Basis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7692-5_22
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