46 



MARION AND GP^NERAL GREENE EXPEDITIONS 



30.94 32.40 33.61 33.38 



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3 3.22 32.72 o-M ^0 60fMILES) 



FiGUUB 21. — Salinity profiles across the continental shelf July SO-September 3, 1928. 



The turbulence noted at times off Cape Farewell appears most 

 likely to be caused by the abrii])t change in the direction of the 

 continental slope and tiie consefjuent turning ol" the current to the 

 right. Eddies apparently form (fig. 8) in this locality of rugged 

 bottom topography and probably assist in splitting the West Green- 

 land Current. At such times one branch hugs the slope and the other 



