ILLUSTRATIONS 



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1. Chart of the area surveyed 3 



2-5. Temperature distribution 7 



6-9. Salinity distribution 11 



10-13. Density distribution 15 



14-17. Specific volume anomaly distribution 19 



18-21. Dissolved oxygen distribution 23 



22-25. Dissolved oxygen percent saturation distribution 27 



26-3 1 . Bathythermograph traces taken at oceanographic stations 31 



32-35. Inorganic phosphate distribution 43 



36-39. Total phosphorous distribution 47 



40-43. Nitrate-nitrogen distribution 51 



44-47. Silicate-silicon distribution 55 



48. Chart of Kane Basin 62 



49. Positions of spot soundings and echo sounding tracklines 63 



50. Structure of the region between Greenland and the Canadian Archi- 



pelago 64 



51. Bottom topography Kane Basin 65 



52. Bottom profiles of Kane Basin 67 



53 . Limestone pebble recovered at Station 8762 68 



54. Pebble recovered at Station 8770 69 



55. Comparison of sediment cumulative curves from Kane Basin with a 



curve of Pleistocene till from Wisconsin 70 



TABLES 



I. Determination of mean values (X, /xgA/1) and statistical limits for organic 



phosphorus in selected sections in the Kane Basin and Baffin Bay 59 



II. The ratio of change, by atoms, for nutrient quantities in the total water 



column in various regions of the Kane Basin and Baffin Bay 60 



III. Sediment parameters 66 



IV. Composition of sand fraction 71 



V. Table of oceanographic data 73 



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