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Fig. 1: Bathymetry of the shelf off Westem Iceland, showing the location of
marine magnetic surveys of 1972 (Areas 9 and 7, Fig. 2) and 1973 (Area 10,
Fig. 3). Also shown is the Faxaflói bay area (Fig. 5) and the Leirvogur Magnetic
Observatory (X).
This paper mainly describes the magnetic data obtained in three
slightly overlapping survey areas (Fig. 1), namely area 9 within
the Breidifjördur bay and area 7 outside that bay, both measured
in 1972, and area 10 off the Northwest peninsula (Vestfirdir)
covered in 1973. No magnetic results are known to have been
puhlished from these areas previously, but the U.S. Naval Ocean-
ographic Office has kindly made a 1968 Project Magnet aeromag-
netic map of the region between the Northwest peninsula and