Greenland Sea

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• Jan Mayen is located in the vicinity of the Arctic Front, that is, the oceanic front between the cold polar/arctic water masses in the Greenland Sea and the relatively warm Atlantic water masses in the Norwegian Sea.

  Blog text (25)

• During the Cold War, the United States had planted a series of extremely sensitive sonic monitors on the floor of the Greenland Sea, as well as in many other strategic areas of the world's oceans, to detect the nearly silent passage of nuclear-armed enemy submarines.

  Fiction book (2000)

• This time there had been no damage on any land bordering the Greenland Sea, although the tremor had registered a solid 6.5 on the Richter scale.

  Fiction book (2000)

• He should have been pleased with the opportunity to observe, at such close quarters, the characteristics and patterns of major temblors on the Greenland Sea fault network.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Every year about 10% of the Arctic Basin's area is exported into the Greenland Sea. (Adapted from ref. 4.)

  Academic text (2011)

• From the outset, the team had intended to study, among other things, ocean-bed temblors in the Greenland Sea to learn more about local suboceanic fault lines.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Research vessels often explore the Greenland Sea to study its ice formations and ecosystems.

• Many migratory birds stop in the Greenland Sea during their seasonal journeys across the Arctic regions.

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