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Dieren en planten

Mens en Milieu

Geology and history of the wadden region

This chapter gives an overview of the (geological) history of the coast and the wadden region. The emphasis lies on the bottom, the climate (sea-level rising, tidal floods) and man (history). The story begins with the oldest characteristic still found in the landscape, the boulder clay, and with the end of the last glacial period. This is followed by the subjects listed below:

  • Subjects
    warmer after glacial period: sea level rises rising sea level declines: lots of peat formation; prehistory influence of the sea increases: tidal storms; history coastal protection better managed, tidal storms less catastrophic
    - 11,000 years ago: the ice begins to melt
    - 9300 years ago: a large island in the North Sea
    - 7700 years ago
    - 6200 years ago    		 - 5000 years ago
    - 3250 years ago
    - 2300 years ago
    - 400: end of the Roman Days    		 1170
    1219 and 1287
    1362
    1404-1424
    1446
    1451-1477
    1493-1525
    1508-1509
    the 'ice flood' of 1511
    1530-1533
    1570
    1634
    1686
    1697
    1717    		 18th and 19th century
    1825
    1855-1895
    1906-1916
    1932
    1953
    1962
    1973-1994
     
  • Intermezzos

    The chronological story is interchanged with several general intermezzos:
    - the landscape in the 9th century