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LONG ISLAND 



ATLANTIC OCEAN 



Figure 18. Conceptualized view of the essential features of the net flow in 

 eastern Long Island Sound and Block island Sound. Black arrows depict net 

 bottom flow and white arrows net surface flow. After Hollman and Sandberg 

 (1972). 



Water fl 

 Bottom water enters 

 Shoal (wr i tten commu 

 fresh water enters f 

 of water from the Ea 

 less than the origin 

 transport system at 

 ly fresh water flowi 

 north shore of Long 

 River. 



ows into western Long Island Sound from both directions. 

 from the east principally in the area south of Stratford 

 nication, Gordon and Pilbeam, 1973) while relatively 

 rom the East River. The recently verified net transport 

 st River into Long Island Sound {]]_) may be significantly 

 al estimate of 1100 cubic meters per second (29). The 

 the western end of the Sound is two-layered with relative- 

 ng eastward into the Sound and then primarily along the 

 Island while bottom water flows westward into the East 



Western Long Island Sound waters are reported to be well mixed 

 internally but poorly mixed with the water to the east. From Hempstead Sill 

 (see Fig. 15) to the East River, however, the water exhibits vertical tempera- 

 ture, salinity and density stratification (11). 



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