1 these terms, but then again maybe not. I think maybe I lean too far in 



2 the direction of trying to make it simple. 



3 ■ DR. KRAEUTER: I have a little problem with that 200-meter 



4 isobath, because most of the time during the document we are comparing 



5 the canyon to the slope and the shelf/slope break we defined as 200 



6 meters and we were taking everything above that, then it is all shelf 



7 that we should be comparing to and not the slope by definition. 



8 DR. VALENTINE: I do not quite follow that. 



9 DR. KRAEUTER: Maybe I am just confused. 



10 DR. VALENTINE: Inside the canyons there are greater depths than 



11 200 meters. 



12 DR. KRAEUTER: Oh, I see what you are saying. 



13 DR. GRASSLE: I think that that can be solved when we do that 



14 figure. We will just refer to the figure there. 



15 DR. KRAEUTER: Okay. 



16 MR. VILD: I take back what I just said before, because I see now. 



17 On the third line you mentioned the shelf breaking down onto the 



18 continental slope. 



19 DR. GRASSLE: Maybe we can solve the problem of what the shelf and 



20 slope are by identifying that. 



21 DR. VALENTINE: We do not want to get into the problem of saying 



22 the boundary--the shallow versus deep boundary is the plane that passes 



23 through the 200-meter isobath, perpendicular to the trend of the canyon. 



24 DR. GRASSLE: For the record. Page is going to send up a figure 



25 with the appropriate labels to go with this paragraph, which will 



26 substitute for figure 1 in the text. 



27 So then, that means that the second paragraph on page 1 will be, 



28 "The illustration presented is--" it has already been referred to in the 



29 definition. 



30 DR. BOTHNER 



31 DR. GRASSLE 



32 DR. BOTHNER 



Are we still on that paragraph on submarine canyons? 



Go ahead, Mike. 



On that particular page, the last two sentences of 



33 the first paragraph--"These studies have shown that canyons do not 



34 exhibit--" 



436 



