FORMING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NARVA-LUGA CONNECTION IN THE HOLOCENE
https://doi.org/10.7868/S0373244417030069
Abstract
The river network on the territory of the Narva-Luga lowland began to take shape since the recession of the waters of the Baltic Ice Lake from the Baltic-Ladoga Klint about 11800–11600 cal ka BP. During the Holocene, the territory of the Narva-Luga lowland thrice experienced transgressive stages of the Baltic Sea, separated by deep regressions. This had resulted to significant changes in the entire hydrographic network in this territory. The Narova and Luga rivers are the largest and most ancient objects in the river network of this territory. Their development had occurred simultaneously, followed by changes in local physico-geographical conditions. The Meriküla and Sininõmme ridges began to take shape only since the end of the lower Holocene, and they were the coastal structures of diachronous stages of the Baltic Sea. The Narova-Luga connection appeared on stage regression of the Littorina Sea, about 4500 cal ka BP. This was facilitated by the descent of the western (Estonian) edge of the wide Littorina lagoon to the Luga Bay. During the Littorina stage, the Meriküla ridge in the area of the Ranna tract had a gap, through which water from the Luga Bay got to the Narva Bay and vice versa. The strait had been closed to the beginning of the Limne-glacial stage about 4000 cal ka BP. The Mertvitsa River had been a former bed of the Narova River at first (at the stage of its confluence to the Luga) and then the Rosson River up to.
About the Authors
N. I. Letyuka
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
D. A. Subetto
Northern Water Problems Institute Karelian Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
P. A. Leontiev
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Letyuka N.I., Subetto D.A., Leontiev P.A. FORMING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NARVA-LUGA CONNECTION IN THE HOLOCENE. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2017;(3):65-81. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.7868/S0373244417030069
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