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Acknowledgments 



We wish to thank P. O'Keefe, the other technical staff, 

 and the captain and crew of the FRV Shamook for as- 

 sistance with the field work. G. Hurley and R.J. Miller 

 provided original data on laboratory studies. Donald 

 Stansbury helped with the computer graphics, and 

 David Schneider, Russell Millar, Geoff Evans, William 

 Warren, Mikio Moriyasu, and the anonymous reviewers 

 provided helpful comments. 



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