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Suggests that the abrupt decrease in the content of CaCO 3 in the sediments which took place 5600-8200 14 C years BP might be associated with the opening of the Danish straits into the Baltic Sea resulting in lower salinities in the southern Kattegat. Before that time, higher salinities similar to the present salinities in the Skagerrak might have prevailed.