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The Gotland Basin is the large central basin in the 
The
Hille, Sven; Nausch, Gunther; and Leipe, Thomas (2005) "Sedimentary deposition and reflux of phosphorus (P) in the Eastern Gotland Basin and their coupling with P concentrations in the water column" ''Oceanologia'' 47(4): pp. 663–679
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...
between Sweden
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and the Baltic countries
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. It is subdivided into the Gdansk Deep (or Gdansk Basin), the Western Gotland Basin, and the Eastern Gotland Basin. Within the Eastern Gotland Basin is the Gotland Deep (249 metres deep) which is an anoxic basin. The Western Gotland Basin contains Landsort Deep, which is the deepest spot of the Baltic sea (459 metres deep).
The sediment
Sediment is a solid material that is transported to a new location where it is deposited. It occurs naturally and, through the processes of weathering and erosion, is broken down and subsequently sediment transport, transported by the action of ...
s in the Gotland Basin are important for studying the climate change
Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...
s in northern Europe
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over the past 5,000 years.
Further reading
* Emeis, K.C.; Neumann, T.; Endler, R.; Struck, U.; Kunzendorf, H.; Christiansen, C. (1998) “Geochemical records of sediments in the Gotland Basin - products of sediment dynamics in a not so stagnant basin?” ''Applied Geochemistry'' 13, No. 3: 349-358 ;Hille, Sven; Nausch, Gunther; and Leipe, Thomas (2005) "Sedimentary deposition and reflux of phosphorus (P) in the Eastern Gotland Basin and their coupling with P concentrations in the water column" ''Oceanologia'' 47(4): pp. 663–679
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References
Baltic Sea Anoxic waters Sedimentary basins of Europe {{regional-geology-stub