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Volume 36 Number 3
  • ISSN: 0263-5046
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2397

Abstract

Abstract

The West of Shetlands exploration area lies between the Faroe Islands and the Shetland Islands in the north-east Atlantic (Figure 1).

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