Cpor^^es Shoal , Texas Tower ^2 



Surface water temperature readings commenced on Georges Shoal 

 on 21 Aoril 1956, well after the winter minimum , and surface and bottom 

 salinities are available for short periods from time to time. 



Surface temperatures reached clightly over 60^F in mid-Septem- 

 ber. Values for other depths are not given herein inasmuch as all bathy- 

 thermograms indicated an isothermal condition. 



Surface salinities ranged between 32.3 and 33.0°/00. Ihe 

 occasional bottom salinity samples collected yielded salinity values 

 within several hundredths of a °/00 of the surface salinity, so it is 

 reasonable to assume the water at this location was completely mixed 

 from top to bottom {%'). 



550 



SURFACE T, °F 



"321 — 



SURFACE S , %o 



_J L^ 



?i?ure 6. C-eor-es .Shoal, 19^6. 



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