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MARION AND GENERAL GREENE EXPEDITIONS 



70 70 60 



60 30 



Figure 59. — Salinity at 400 meters July 19-September 11, 1928. 



The failure of the subsurface isotherms in several places to coin- 

 cide with the streamlines of the currents may well be due to the 

 variation in the proportions in which the various tributaries of the 

 Labrador Current mix. A partial damming of the Baffin Land 

 Current, for example, by a southerly gale in the region of the Davis 



