The Peribaltic Group
Field Symposium on the Geological History of the Baltic Sea in Lithuania
September 8-12, 1996, Palanga, Lithuania

Organiser: A. Bitinas
47 participants from 13 countries

This meeting was organized by Albertas Bitinas and others from the Geological Survey of Lithuania. Participants were introduced to the Quaternary Geology of Lithuania with a focus on the geological history of the Baltic Sea coastal area. The trip began in Vilnius and traversed the country to the coast, with stops at the core archives and several field sites. Two paper and poster sessions provided research results from North America and Europe. The symposium volume contains 34 abstracts, many of which present new and largely inaccessible data from the Baltic States. On another field trip the participants observed large coastal dunes and Littorina Sea deposits.

Papers and posters given at the symposium:

Short geological and geomorphological review of the Lithuanian maritime region
A. Bitinas, A. Damusyte, M. Stancikaite

Geological-floristic setting of the augustovian (pastonian, bavelian?) interglacial lake sediments at Szczebra, near Augustow (NE Poland)
A. Ber

On varved deposits of glacio-lacustrine character in the balbierriskis outcrop at the Nemunas river
A. Gaigalas, Br. Karmaza, V. Kazakauskas, M. Melesyte

Glazitektonik in Ostdeutschland und Beispiele für deren Bedeutung in der angewandten Geologie
M. Hannemann

Mid weichselian glaciation history and interstadial environments in the western Baltic, Møn, Denmark
M. Houmark-Nielsen

Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating technique: recent progress in Tallinn
G. Hütt

Glaciotectonics in Denmark recorded from well logs
P.R. Jacobsen

Age problems of the subglacial meltwater systems in the NE Finland
P. Johansson

Geological structure of the Kursiu Nerija Spit and Kursiu Marios Lagoon, development during late glacial and Holocene
M. Kabailiene

Stratigraphy of the late glacial and Holocene deposits and palaeogeography of the northern part of Lithuanian coastal zone according to new pollen and diatom data
M. Kabailiene, M. Stancikaite, G. Ruplenaite

Importance of palynological investigations in the reconstruction of the evidences of geological history of the Gulf of Ryga
L. Kalnina

Active faults and their manifestation in the Baltic sea basins topography within the territory of Belarus
A.K. Karabanov, E.A. Levkov

Glacial morphogenesis of the Estonian shelf
R. Karukäpp

Heavy minerals in till from Ilmajoki, western Finland
M. Koivisto

Sedimentation in periglacial lakes, Kola-Karelia region, Russia
V.V. Kolka

Herring and heather in the pollen diagrams from ottenby, southern Öland, Sweden
K.A. Kübler

Mid-northern Poland as an example for the directions of ice sheet movement during the vistula glaciation
J.T. Kusinski

The Baltic area geodynamic evolution and its impact on the geological processes in Belarus
E.A. Levkov, A.K. Karabanov

Genetic grain size groups of Quaternary deposits
Z. Malinauskas

Role of glacial erosion in modelling the lowland areas
L. Marks

Features of north Timan glaciation
A.V. Matoshko

Development of the belarus river systems during the Pleistocene
I.E. Pavlovskaya

Evidence for a water-filled basin in front of and under the Weichselian ice sheet in the southwestern Peribalticum
J.A. Piotrowski

Polluotsa – a new site of buried organic material in NW Estonia. (with some implications to the history of the Baltic Sea)
K. Ploom, K. Kihno, R. Rajamäe

Eolian activity in Estonia
A. Raukas

Sedimentation characteristics in the eastern part of the Baltic Sea
M. Repecka, O. Kondratiene

Correlation of stratigraphic events of late Pleistocene – basic assumptions and present knowledge in Lithuania
J. Satkunas

Lithology of the marine sediments on Lithuanian shoreline of the Baltic
P. Sinkunas

Some peculiarities of development of the Peribaltic ice-dam lakes of the Pskov glacial lobe in gotiglacial
O.M. Tatarnikov, V.K. Lesnenko, A.G. Archipenkov

Subfossil mollusc shells in the coastal deposits of Estonia
E. Tavast

Late-quaternary paleogeography of the northern part of the Baltic Sea
E. Trimonis, N. Savukyniene

Stratigraphy of the late Pleistocene and Holocene bottom sediments in the SE part of the Baltic Sea
D. Usaityte