CONTENTS 



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Preface vii 



Acknowledgments xi 



Introduction xiii 



Serial sections of temperature and salinity in the dififerent ocean basins 1 



General discussion 3 



Atlantic Ocean and connecting seas 7 



Oceanographic data, vertical sections of temperature and salinity for the Norwegian Sea, 



the Polar Sea, and adjacent areas. By Harald U. Sverdrup and B. Helland-Hansen . . 7 



Sources of data, the Norwegian Sea 9 



Sources of data, the Sea east of Spitsbergen, Murman Sea, Barents Sea, et cetera 10 



Sources of data, the Kara Sea, the Siberian Sea, et cetera 11 



Sources of data, the Arctic area in general 11 



Sources of data, Baltic Sea 11 



Atlantic Ocean: Horizontal distribution of temperature, salinity, and density at standard 



depths. By Georg Wiist 12 



The source material 12 



Temperature 13 



Salinity and density 14 



List of sources of data 15 



Serial sections of temperature and saUnity in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas 19 



Mediterranean Sea 19 



Sources of data 19 



Adriatic Sea 20 



Sources of data 20 



Literature especially on the periodic cruises by the Austrians on the Najade and 



the ItaUans on the Ciclope 20 



Serial sections of temperature and salinity in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea 21 



Pacific Ocean 22 



Serial sections of temperature and saUnity 22 



Sources of data for the north Pacific Ocean. Listed by A. Defant 23 



Sources of data for the south Pacific Ocean. Listed by A. Defant 24 



Supplemental sources of data on the Pacific Ocean 25 



Red Sea and Indian Ocean 27 



Red Sea, serial sections of temperature and sahnity 27 



Sources of data 27 



Indian Ocean, serial sections of temperature and salinity 27 



Sources of data for the Indian Ocean. After A. Defant 28 



Supplemental sources of data for the Indian Ocean 29 



Charting the Bottom of the Oceans 31 



Sounded and unsounded areas 33 



Marine bottom deposits 35 



Submarine earthquake epicenters, magnetic observations at sea, tidal records 39 



The structure of the ocean basins as indicated by seismological data and earthquake epicenters. 



By Beno Gutenberg 41 



The structure of oceanic basins as indicated by seismological data 41 



Earthquake epicenters in oceanic regions and along continental borders 44 



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