1 differ--you know, California, the middle Atlantic, the north Atlantic. 



2 They are different. 



3 They have different energetics, different sediment types, that 



4 sort of thing. So if they did a study on some Gulf coast canyon and 



5 then decided to drill a hole-- 



5 DR. GRASSLE: I think it has to be qualified to the North 



7 Atlantic, because that is what our report is about. 



8 DR. VALENTINE: Right. 



9 DR. KRAEUTER: I am not willing to say that. I am judging from 



10 the view of the scientific committee right now. What happens is that 



11 happens on everything [sentence unclear], 



12 Okay, so we say the north Atlantic. Then we come out, okay, what 



13 about Lydonia versus some other canyon? Because they are different? 



14 How different does it have to be before we cannot extrapolate some of 



15 the important processes? 



16 DR. VALENTINE: I would say the Gulf coast province is radically 



17 differ-- 



18 (Simultaneous discussion.) 



19 DR. KRAEUTER: What about the mid-Atlantic? 



20 DR. VALENTINE: The mid Atlantic is generally similar except for 



21 the tidal velocities and the current velocities. 



22 DR. GRASSLE: What did North Atlantic mean when we said North 



23 Atlantic in the title of our report? I was thinking of something 



24 involving the northeast. 



25 MR. VILD: I think what--it would be the North Atlantic planning 



26 area, which very interestingly stops at the Rhode Island/Massachusetts 



27 border. We are officially a Mid-Atlantic State, and yet we are part of 



28 the North Atlantic Regional Technical Working Group, not the Mid- 

 29 Atlantic working group. So there you go. 



30 I think it is mainly to reflect where the lease sales are in the 



31 north Atlantic. 



32 DR. GRASSLE: Maybe we should say North Atlantic and Mid- 

 33 Atlantic. 



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