HYDROGRAPHY OF THE MARINE WATERS 



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DAYS OF MONTH 

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LEGEND s 



Oregon Inlet Gage 



- Roanoke Island Gage 



Mimden Point Gage 



DAYS or MONTH 

 10 M 12 



Fig. 3. Tidal gage records at Oregon Inlet and northward to Munden Point in Curri- 

 tuck Sound. Adapted from Fig. 8, in Beach Erosion at Kittyhawk, Nags Head and 

 Oregon Inlet, N. C, by Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army (1935). 



a rather vague eastern margin as the Sargasso Sea and Antilles Current 

 merge from the east and southeast respectively.'^ 



As is well known, the Florida Current is near shore off Florida; however, 

 with the widening of the continental shelf and the receding coastal profile of 



7. The importance of these merging waters in the dynamics of the Gulf Stream System, 

 particularly in the pronounced volume increase of the Florida Current and the Gulf Stream just 

 beyond it, is a subject of controversy. For a discussion of this see Sverdrup, Johnson, and 

 Fleming, The Oceans (1942), pp. 675-680. 



