The German Baltic Sea coast is a geologically extremely interesting and diverse landscape unit of Central Europe. Its geological development, the earliest stages of which are reflected in the glacially transported Scandinavian erratics, reaches its current shape in the Quaternary with the relief forms and sediments of the Pleistocene glaciations, as well as the Holocene sea level rise and its consequences for coastal formation. The varied outer and inner coast of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with its bays, fjords, and straits, spits and lagoons, impressive cliff sections, and wide sandy beaches, offers a multitude of insights into recent earth history, current coastal dynamics, and accompanying environmental changes for all those interested in geological phenomena and processes. The aim of this book is to...