CONTENTS 



Page 



Foreword V 



Chapter I 



Introduction 1 



Description of vessel and apparatus 1 



Personnel 3 



Narrative of the expedition 4 



Chapter II 



The bathymetry 53 



Introduction 53 



Description of apparatus and metlnods 53 



Corrections applied to the echo soundings 57 



Final results 59 



Charts Following page 60 



Chapter III 



The sediments 62 



Introduction 62 



General remarks 62 



Interpretation of mechanical analyses 63 



Description of sediments 67 



The origin of the sediments 70 



Characteristics of sediments of ice-borne origin 77 



Table 1 78 



2 79 



3 79 



4 80 



5 81 



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