It is evident that the thermal influence of Atlantic waters is probably not distributed over the 

 entire Kara Sea. Delimiting the given area on the north by the 80th latitude, on the south by a 

 straight line from Matochkin Shar to Proliv Shokalskago, and on the west by a line from Mys 

 Zhelanizy to Franz Joseph Land, the area appears to equal 300, 000 km^. But the quantity of heat 

 given off will, according to Somov, increase to 10 kg-cal/cm^ per year. The amount of heat will 

 be sufficient for the melting of ice 125 cm thick. 



It is evident that such calculations are very important, and there is no doubt that, with the 

 accumulation of the corresponding data, they will be refined and adapted to other seas. 



LITERATURE: 62, 77, 108, 121, 125. 



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