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and was, therefore, missed on our Resolution Island section. The 

 swelling of the slope band, on the other hand, to 4.2 million cubic 

 meters per second was largely due to an eddy (fig. 47) which inter- 

 sected the outer end of the Resolution Island section. 



Nachvak. — The distribution of velocity August 25-26, 1928, off 

 Nachvak Fiord, Labrador, section K, fig. 50, indicates weak eddy 

 currents prevailed over the shelf, but a band of stronger current, 1.3 



33.0 O 34,00 



SALI N 1 TY 



35.00 



Figure 49. — Temperature-salinity conflation curves of the Labrador Current, sections H 



and I. 



million cubic meters per second, hugged the continental edge. The 

 slope band off Xachvak which coresponds to the shelf band off Reso- 

 lution Island had increased to double the volume of the latter. It is 

 traced (fig. 47) partly to Baffin Land Current and partly to dis- 

 charge from Hudson Strait. The fact that lower salinities prevailed 

 in this Inind of current than in the corresponding band off Resolu- 

 tion Island (figs. 02 and 63) also supports the above view. Continu- 

 ing offshore along section K a relatively wide belt of weak northerly 

 current is crossed before entering tlie outer band of the Labrador 

 Current. The presence of so much nortlierly current may have been 



