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Post-glacial rebound

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The location here is Lake Mälaren which used to be part of the Baltic Sea when the Vikings lived in the region.  But today because of glacial rebound it has been cut off from the sea and become a fresh-water lake. 

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Post-glacial rebound

Post-glacial rebound (sometimes called continental rebound, glacial isostasy, glacial isostatic adjustment) is the rise of land masses that were depressed by the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period, through a process known as isostasy. It affects northern Europe (especially Scotland, Estonia, Fennoscandia, and northern Denmark), Siberia, Canada, the Great Lakes of Canada and the United States, the coastal region of the US state of Maine, parts of Patagonia, and Antarctica.

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