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BRUCE C. HEiiZEN AND MARIE THARP 



lOOM ZOOM 200M-500M 500M-I000M >IOOOM 



Fig. 1. Bathymetric chart of the Faeroe-Iceland-Greenland Ridge. 



0-300 



300-800 



Fig. 2. Hypothetical bathymetric chart of the Faeroe-Iceland-Greenland Ridge if 

 sea level were lowered 200 m. Current estimates of the maximum Pleistocene 

 lowering of sea level do not exceed 160 m; thus, even if the maximum lowering of 

 sea level during penultimate glaciation were 40 m greater than current estimates, 

 the Faeroe-Iceland-Greenland Ridge would not provide a continuous land bridge 

 from Europe to Iceland and Greenland. If such a connection is required by 

 studies of the geology of the ridge or of the biota of the area, a substantial 

 subsidence of this ridge must be assumed to have occurred in the Late Pleistocene. 



