1 only several dives, you can tell a lot, especially in the smaller 



2 canyons from just two or three or four dives. 



3 I think what we ought to do here. Barb, is name the canyons for 



4 which our description, we feel, applies. I would say that, certainly, 



5 Corsair and Lydonia and Oceanographer, Welker, Hydrographer, Veatch, 



6 Atlantis, Block, Hudson. 



7 DR. HECKER: You will give me that list. 



8 DR. VALENTINE: Corsair is not in American jurisdiction, so I 



9 don't think we have to consider that one. 



10 DR. AURAND: Would it be easier to name the ones we don't think 



11 apply? 



12 DR. COOPER: The list is not that long. Again, some of what I am 



13 saying here is based on one or two dives, but these are dives that were 



14 made in the axis and across the rims of canyons. 



15 We know from those few dives, I would have no problems about 



16 putting them into this classification or characterization or not. 



17 DR. BUTMAN: I think the very first thing we discussed this 



18 morning, when we made a list of what we think makes canyons special, and 



19 I think you just apply them when a particular area comes up. You apply 



20 those, whether there is resuspension or whatever. 



21 I'm not sure we have to make a list of the canyons if we just made 



22 a list of the properties which you think are special to canyons, the 



23 characteristics you think are special to canyons. You can just apply 



24 that list to whatever area you want to apply that to. 



25 DR. TEAL: You are the people here, sitting in this room, who have 



26 the ability to apply that list. It seems to me appropriate that you at 



27 least--you don't have to try to make something all inclusive, because 



28 you haven't been to them all, so you can't. 



29 DR. BUTMAN: Sure. 



30 DR. TEAL: But, at least, you could say that there are those 



31 canyons that this whole discussion applies to. 



32 DR. BUTMAN: I agree. 



33 DR. COOPER: That's appropriate. 



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