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THE deep North Polar Basin forms the northern termination of a series of depressions of the earth's crust extending north through the Norwegian Sea from the eastern side of the Atlantic, and dividing between the continental masses of the old and the new world. The eruption of the Jurassic basatts of Franz Josef Land and Spitsbergen may have had some connection with the sinking in of the North Polar Sea bottom, but the basin was probably to a great extent formed before that time. Newer volcanic rocks are not known hitherto from the edges of the North Polar Basin. On Bennett Island, De Long reports lava (or basalt), but we do not know its age.
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North Polar Problems 1 . Nature 76, 18 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076018a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/076018a0