Eider Canal Eider Canal The Eider Canal (also called the Schleswig-Holstein Canal) was an artificial waterway in southern Denmark (later northern Germany) which connected the North Sea with the Baltic Sea by way of the rivers Eider and Levensau. Constructed between 1777 and 1784, the Eider Canal was built to create a path for ships entering and exiting the Baltic that was shorter and less storm-prone than navigating around the Jutland peninsula. In the 1880s the canal was replaced by the enlarged Kiel Canal, which includes some of the Eider Canal's watercourse. The canal's watercourse followed the border between the duchies of
Geology of the Baltic Sea wells have revealed the existence of petroleum of Lower Paleozoic age beneath Gotland. Bibliography Geology of the Baltic Sea The Geology of the Baltic Sea is characterized by having areas located both at the Baltic Shield of the East European Craton and the Danish-North German-Polish Caledonides. There is a distinction between what is the current Baltic Sea depression, formed in the Cenozoic Era, and the much older sedimentary basins whose sediments are preserved in the zone. Although glacial erosion has contributed to shape the present depression, the Baltic trough is largely a depression of tectonic origin that existed long before