. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. TEMPER4TUEES. 235 of Yucatan and the Windw»i-d Passage. Nothing but actual observation has developed the fact that in the Straits of Bernini this current extends across the whole width of the straits and to the very bottom.^ In the Windward Passage the dredgings Tlistantes frmrv the Cow^t in- SauticaZ JlfiZes â. 2XVI svn juviiL xsix xsK yssi ixsi szm Fig. 163.âOff St. Simon's Island, Ga. Positinn. made on the dividing ridge and on each side of it indicate, from the presence of a large amount of pteropod silt
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology; Zoology. TEMPER4TUEES. 235 of Yucatan and the Windw»i-d Passage. Nothing but actual observation has developed the fact that in the Straits of Bernini this current extends across the whole width of the straits and to the very bottom.^ In the Windward Passage the dredgings Tlistantes frmrv the Cow^t in- SauticaZ JlfiZes â. 2XVI svn juviiL xsix xsK yssi ixsi szm Fig. 163.âOff St. Simon's Island, Ga. Positinn. made on the dividing ridge and on each side of it indicate, from the presence of a large amount of pteropod silt on the southern 1 Henry Mitchell looks upon the Nich- olas and Santaren Channels, as well as the Providence and Exuma, not as chan- nels proper worn by currents, but as por- tions of the ocean bed left undisturbed in the upheaval of the Bahamas. These thannels are motionless masses of water. in which the decline of temperature with the depth is a little more rapid than in the track of the Gulf Stream. MitcheU also considers that the current of the Gulf Stream has had no share in cutting out the Straits of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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