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depth of 250 meters. Below that, and most pronounced on the bot- 

 tom, temperatures as high as 2° C., and salinities of 34.50%o, indi- 

 cate that even as far north as Marioti's station 1021, in latitude 65°- 

 37', longitude 59°05', west Greenland water sometimes is found under 



Figure 43. — The vertical distribution of temperature and salinity across Davis Straiti 

 August 13-17, 1928, as shown by Marion's stations 1007-1025. 



the Arctic water on the Baffin Land shelf. The negative tempera- 

 tures and salinities about 34.50%o noted in section 5 (fig. 43), below 

 depths of 800 meters, represent true Baffin Bay bottom water that is 

 barred from the Labrador Sea by the Davis Strait Ridge. , 



