PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE GULF OF MAINE 



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Temperatures higher than 15° are always to be expected only a few miles outside 

 the edge of the continent during July and August at 40 meters, as illustrated by our 

 station data for 1914 (fig. 53), but there is no evidence that the 40-meter stratum 



Fig. 53. — Temperature at a depth ot iO meters for July- August, 1914. North of the heavy broken line (Cape Cod to Cape 

 Sable) the chart represents the state of the gulf from August 11 to 24; south of it, for July, combined with August. 

 The Bay of Fundy temperatures are from Craigie (1916b) 



ever warms to so high a temperature as this anywhere within the 200-meter 

 contour abreast the Gulf of Maine. 



