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Topography of the Arctic Ocean

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Marine Geology and Oceanography of the Arctic Seas

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The world’s largest land-locked ocean, the Arctic, occupies a broad elliptical basin, covering an area of about 12 million km2 and containing 13 million km3 of water. Although it constitutes over 3% of the world’s ocean area, the Arctic holds only 1% of its volume; this is accounted for by the broad continental shelves which underlie almost 70% of its area (Beal, 1969).

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Herman, Y. (1974). Topography of the Arctic Ocean. In: Herman, Y. (eds) Marine Geology and Oceanography of the Arctic Seas. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87411-6_2

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