The Western Subarctic region includes Iceland, Norwegian and Greenland seas which are commonly referred to as the Norwegian-Greenland Basin in Russian, and the Nordic Seas in English (Vogt, 1986). The studied region is constrained from south by Iceland, the Denmark Strait and the Faeroe-Iceland sill, from west – by Greenland, from north – by the Fram Strait, from east – by Spitsbergen, the Barents Sea and Scandinavia.
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Levitan, M.A., Lavrushin, Y.A. (2009). The Seas of West Subarctic Region. In: Sedimentation History in the Arctic Ocean and Subarctic Seas for the Last 130 kyr. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 118. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00288-5_8
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