The shoreline displacement curve of Rugen Island (Southern Baltic Sea)

Rugen Island is situated in north-east Germany at the southern Baltic Sea c oast. Geological, stratigraphical, and palaeoecological evidence collected from the 'Schaabe' spit in northeast Rugen include 167 cores and 46 radioca rbon dates leading to a local shoreline displacement curve, which is compar ed and discussed with Morner's eustatic curve of northwest Europe and Toole y's shoreline displacement curve of northwest England. Corresponding to the se curves the Holocene sea-level rise occurred in phases on Rugen Island. T he undulations found fit temporally well. There is a close correlation betw een the shoreline displacement curves of the Lytham area in northwest Engla nd and Rugen Island during the Boreal and the Atlanticum. Compared with Mor ner's eustatic curve Rugen Island was uplifted between about 7000 BP and 50 00 BP in a range of 6 m. Since that time stable conditions or slightly subs idence are presumed on Rugen Island. (C) 1999 INQUA/Elsevier Science Ltd. A ll rights reserved.