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PRINCIPLES OF STRATIGRAPHY 

 Table Shozving the Salinity of the Sea. 



A. Oceans. 



1. Atlantic Ocean 



2. Indian Ocean 



3. Pacific Ocean 



Average for the three large oceans 



(or 3.5 per cent, by weight) . , 



4. Arctic Ocean , 



B. Mediterraneans. 

 a. Land Locked. 



5. Roman mediterranean 



6. Red Sea mediterranean 



7. Mexican mediterranean 



8. Yucatan mediterranean 



9. Caribbean mediterranean 



10. Black Sea mediterranean 



b. Marginal. 



1 1 . Austral-Asian group 



12. Andamanian mediterranean. . . . 



13. East Chinese mediterranean. . . . 



14. Japanese mediterranean 



15. Okhotsk mediterranean 



16. Behring Sea mediterranean 



C. Epicontinental Seas. 

 a. Land Locked. 



17. Hudson Bay 



18. Baltic Sea 



19. Persian Gulf 



20. Sea of Azov 



b. Marginal. 



21. British group 



22. North Sea 



23. Tasmanian Sea 



D. Funnel Seas. 



24. Calif ornian funnel sea 



25. Laurentian funnel sea 



Surface 

 salinity 



in 

 permille 



35-37 

 34-81 



34-91 



35-03 

 25-50 (?) 



34-85 

 38.80 



35-95 

 18.30 



33-87 

 31-50 

 32.10 

 34-IO 

 30.90 

 30.30 



26.00 (?) 



7.80 



36.70 



10.50-10.70 



34.80 

 34.20 

 35 50 



35 50 

 30.50 



Mean 



total 



temperature 



C. degrees 



4.02 

 3-82 

 3-73 



3.83 

 -0.66 



13-35 

 22.69 



6.60 



6.90 

 10.09 

 9.29 

 0.90 

 1.50 

 2.00 



i.oo(?) 



3-91 

 24.00 



9-77 



7.72 



12.50 



9. 12 

 2.18 



Volume 

 salinity 



in 

 permille 



34.80 



36.10 

 39.00 



35-30 

 22.04 



34.00 

 33 00 

 34-00 

 34-00 

 33-50 

 32.00 



30.00 (?) 

 10.00 

 37.00 

 10.50-10.70 



35 00 

 35 00 

 35 50 



35 50 

 33 00 



