DACIAN BASIN - GeoEcoMar

2.3. Was the Dacian Basin a lake or a sea ?
FIGURE 2.15. Classification of standing water bodies in the paleogeographic perspective
The salinity criterion used in the classification is the same scale dividing the
paleo-basins into fresh water, brackish water, normal marine water or hyper saline
(Fig. 2.15). The lacustrine water bodies can be affiliated to any of the three types.
The sea bodies usually show normal water salinity, but brackish marine bodies also
exist (the Baltic Sea - less than 15‰ salinity; the Black Sea - 17‰ salinity in the
surface water).
Location and delimitation is the third classification criterion. Two main water
bodies categories are separated in this classification (Fig. 2.15): landlocked (surrounded
by land) and open (connected to the global ocean). The landlocked cate-
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