HYDROLOGY OF THE BRANSFIELD STRAIT 



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completely mixed and homogeneous water of Weddell Sea origin was present. In the 

 vertical temperature section the warm deep water is seen to extend across the strait as 

 an attenuated wedge-shaped layer, the apex of the wedge sloping up towards Trinity 

 Peninsula. 



STATION WS476 WS477 WS478 

 KING GEORGE I. 



WS479 



2740 



WS4B0 WS4BI WS482 



2750 2760 3770 2775 TRINITY PENIN * 



'27 78 



27791 



500i 



ID0O 



1500 



2000 



Fig. 32. Vertical section of density (<r ( ): King George Island to Trinity Peninsula, November 1929. 



The vertical sections of the line between Livingston Island and Trinity Peninsula are 

 shown in Figs. 33-5. As with the section farther to the north-east the densest surface 



STATION 



LIVINGSTON I. 



W5483 WS484 



WS485 



5C» 



ID00 M 



1500m 



WS486 WS487 

 3410%. 34-20% 



TRINITY PENIN* 



Fig- 33- Vertical section of salinity: Livingston Island to Trinity Peninsula, November 1929. 



water is again found at the station closest to Trinity Peninsula, St. WS 487. The com- 

 plete vertical mixing which was found at the corresponding station, St. WS 480, on the 

 King George Island line is not seen at St. WS 487. The warm deep water has its 



