ИСТИНА

The northeastern part of the White Sea, including the Gorlo (Gorge) strait and Belomorsko-Kuloiskoe (Kuloi) plateau, comprises the traces of glacial, marine and tectonic history of Late Pleistocene – Holocene of the northeastern side of the peri-Baltic region. We performed the studies of the southern shoreline zone of the Gorlo strait, including geomorphological and GPR survey of different coastal levels, lithostratigraphic investigations of outcrops and drilling cores, radiocarbon dating and diatom analysis. The main goal was the reconstruction of the White Sea coastal zone development in the Holocene, but the results embrace a wider time span and range of questions related to the Late Quaternary history of the European Northeast.