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Science 21 August 1981:
Vol. 213. no. 4510, pp. 887 - 888
DOI: 10.1126/science.213.4510.887
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Excepftonally Strong Near-Bottom Flows on the Continental Rise of Nova Scotia

M. J. RICHARDSON 1, M. WIMBUSH 2, and L. MAYER 2

1 Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964
2 Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett 02882

Recent current velocity measurements across the lower continental rise of Nova Scotia show a deep equatorwardflow with speeds (maximum, 73 centimeters per second) among the highest recorded for the deep sea. Silicate measurements indicate that this flow usually consists of southern-source (Antarctic) bottom water. These measurements confirm the existence of a second and deeper western boundary flow that was earlier inferredfrom geological observations.

Submitted on February 24, 1981
Revised on May 18, 1981


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