1 The chances are that it's greater than what you would predict on 



2 the basis of the Georges Bank monitoring data, so I defer to you on 



3 that, Brad. That's an important thing to bring out. 



4 DR. TEAL: But I meant to be trying to make a distinction between 



5 the particulate stuff which, according to Jerry, is very unavailable to 



6 the organisms. It's in very insoluble forms, and whatever is soluble 



7 that comes out from the rig which is available, can be absorbed onto 



8 particles and can be leached off the particles, then, in the reverse 



9 reactions and, therefore, is available to be taken up by organisms, 



10 readily. 



11 The kind of an argument I was trying to make, and I'm not clear 



12 now whether you are rejecting that or not, to say that if you said, say, 



13 five times a concentration in the canyons of these soluble materials, 



14 would that represent a level which was of concern to us? 



15 I am trying to get at a way to address the question. 



16 DR. BUTMAN: I see what you are trying to do. I guess I don't 



17 feel comfortable here with your two times or five times. I don't think 



18 we have the-- 



19 DR. TEAL: The two and a half comes from his data. 



20 DR. BUTMAN: Right, but that two and a half is saying that--I see 



21 the availability of material to be scavenged in the canyon to be much 



22 larger than it would be on Georges Bank, the availability of dissolved 



23 constituent to be much larger than it is on Georges Bank. 



24 There is the same amount of material, but on Georges Bank it gets 



25 distributed over a much larger area because the circulation is not 



26 confined. To get to your number, I would rather take the total number 



27 of pounds of dissolved constituents and distribute it over a reasonable 



28 area of the canyon, say, a few kilometers of the canyon axis to see what 



29 those concentrations are, since all of the dissolved constituents end up 



30 there. 



31 I think on Georges Bank, all of the dissolved constituents are 



32 being spread over hundreds and hundreds of kilometers. 



33 DR. GRASSLE: That assumes complete scavenging by particles, 



34 right? 



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