. Fig. 13. Section IV. Distribution of oxygen (0^ ). 3000 m. This southward flow of deep water is also indicated by the bends of the iso- therms at depths between 1500 and 2500 m. From the temperature and salinity sections it appears as if the water of high temperature and relatively high salinity at 500 m. in 56° S represents the last traces of the Atlantic deep water, but it must, as pointed out by Clowes (1933), be borne in mind that the general direction of the current in this region is from west and that, therefore, the water in 56° S does not come from the Atlantic but from the
. Fig. 13. Section IV. Distribution of oxygen (0^ ). 3000 m. This southward flow of deep water is also indicated by the bends of the iso- therms at depths between 1500 and 2500 m. From the temperature and salinity sections it appears as if the water of high temperature and relatively high salinity at 500 m. in 56° S represents the last traces of the Atlantic deep water, but it must, as pointed out by Clowes (1933), be borne in mind that the general direction of the current in this region is from west and that, therefore, the water in 56° S does not come from the Atlantic but from the Pacific. A section farther to the east in the Atlantic might, on the other hand, show traces of Atlantic water in high latitudes. Near Bouvet Island salinities of 3475 °/oo were observed below 600 m. (Discovery St. 453 in 54° 06' S and 04° E), and this water probably represents water from the Pacific which has been mixed with deep water from the Atlantic.
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