Still rising
The inland ice cover, up to 3 km thick, depressed the land surface hundreds of meters. The post-glacial land uplift is measured by the levels of highest shorelines, identified by delta-surfaces and shore marks. Such places are here joined by lines of equal level. A level is not contemporary as the ice melted away from south to north. The highest shoreline was found at 285 m above today�s sealevel near today's coast in the north. Here the land uplift still amounts to approx. 1 meter in 100 years, in Stockholm to half of that. In the southernmost Sweden the highest shoreline is less than 50 m above sealevel.