46 



MARION AND GP^NERAL GREENE EXPEDITIONS 



30.94 32.40 33.61 3338 



3 3,22 32.7 2 o-M 30 60(miLES) 



Figure 21. — Salinity profiles across the conlineiital shelf July 30-September 3, 1928. 



The turbulence noted at times off Cape Farewell appears most 

 likely to be caused by the abrupt change in the direction of the 

 continental slope and tlie conse(iuent turning of the current to the 

 right. Eddies a])i);iren(Iy form (lig. 8) in this locality of rugged 

 bottom topography and jjrobably assist in s})litting the West Green- 

 land Current. At such times one branch hugs the slope and the other 



