The Last Deglaciation in Europe : Every year

During the transition between the last glacial period and the actual warm interglacial (Holocene), the sea level rose by 120 m, flooding large parts of the continent, drastically upset the face of Europe.

This animation was performed with generated pictures on RStudio (R coding language)

References :

Caspian sea level evolution :

Black sea level evolution :

Post-glacial rebound dataset :

Elevation and bathymetry rasters :

Music :
Tyler Bates - Agoge (300 soundtrack)
World of Warcraft (WOTLK) : Tusk Indule Day
World of Warcraft (WOTLK) : Crystalsong Forest
Mass Effect Andromeda soundtrack : Landing at Havarl
World of Warcraft (WOTLK) : Reflected Halls
Matt Morton - TransEarth injection (Apollo 11 soundtrack)
When Waves Collide - Star Collapse

[hyljix]

Doggerland: Watch me disappear into the sea completely

Finland: Watch me rise from the sea like a badass

[andrasbalogh]

Ok, this is pretty mindf*ck for me, to think that the shape of Europe was different even in the middle ages. The land where Stockholm is was under the sea when Rome was founded is astonishing

[kadash]

Oh, so that is why Finland has so many lakes, and rises up from the sea. Good to know, thank you!

[woodenscrotum]

Criminally underrated work, excellent music choice too.

[chrisgaming]

So, Finland didn't exist in the ice ages. Good to know.

[japaris]

It is fascinating to see that the Caspian Sea changed pretty recently

[Stickminbasi]

It occurs to me: nowadays, 40% or so of humanity lives within 100 km of the coastline (half within 200 km).

If this was still the case back then (emphasis on "if"), can one imagine just how much is now completely lost to time, because we can't reach them? Lost cultures, and with them, traditions, customs, and artifacts.



EDIT: It occurs to me to clarify: no, I'm not arguing for some sort of Atlantis. I'm thinking prehistoric communities, not too dissimilar from their inland counterparts in overall technological level. Imagine the stories these had to tell.

[TheOz]

One thing I would love to see is the climate change and deglaciation effects on the Sundaland (where modern day Malaysia, Indonesia are). During the ice age, the Sundaland is where you wanna be; quite warm and stable climate with plenty of food. And there used to be so much land: ancient humans used to be able to walk from present day Thailand to all of modern day Indonesia.

Of course, all that changed during the interglacial period. In many places, it is estimated that they lost 1 km of coastline per year as the lowlands were reclaimed by the ocean. The Strait of Malacca, based on geological data, was thought to have a huge river flowing down north, for one example.

[georgethakur]

Can you imagine there was a "beach" where the bottom of the ocean is now?

[gone]

crazy to see how different the map was even in the middle ages, let alone how far down fennoscandia was during the bronze age. Crazy.

[theKunz]

It's kinda amazaing that a tiny island slice of Doggerland still existed at the time of the pyramids 8:27

[ryugafan]

Who would have know that my little Baltic sea was once almost the size of the whole Europe.

[petelcek]

In early Holocene, the Black and Caspian sea were connected via nowadays lower Don-Volga stream. The shoreline of the Aral sea also vary a lot and at one point it was connected to Caspian sea, which was possibly even up to doubled in size. In possibly relatively short time of early Holocene those 3 megacontinental lakes formed 1 single enormous body of water. Glacier meltdown from surrounding mountain ranges and former continental ice sheets made huge impact to them. In later periods those waters evaporated and extended lakes surface shrank.
When they are making an early Holocene maps they constantly forgot about that or probably dont even know. At least there was the attention on eastern Black sea shoreline.

[JustaDogHere]

Ok something I thought of: The rise of Fennoscandia when the glaciers melted away and the beginning of the world described in norse mythology are so ereily similar, I wouldn't be surpirsed if the stories told long before the norse arrived, described the melting of the fennoscandian glaciers, that part of the story later becoming the origin point for norse mythology.

In norse mythology the world began as a dark, icey, cold world with no life all across. In the real world Fennoscandia (the region that'll eventually home the Finns and Scandinavians) were once fully covered under an ice sheet. Proves that flood myths aren't coincidental in every culture, but something humanity experienced before civilisations rose that are remembered to this day in ancient stories.

[dovahkendov]

Ice glacier: *melts*

Doggerland: Adios

Finland and Sweden: Bonjour

[mickeybrown]

Your taste in music is impeccable. All your videos have the best soundtrack EVER!👍👍

[chickenmcgriffin]

8:37 Top 10 saddest anime deaths (RIP DOGGERLAND)

[dylanplumley]

The first city arose when Britain wasn’t even an island yet and Finland barely even existed. That is mind-blowing!

[berno]

I want to see one from South America, I am very interested in the formation of the lakes in the Andes and the fjords of Argentuna and Chile

[edzranyduasa]

All comments I see: so Finland doesn't exist at Ice Age


Me : where Sweden go