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At Station 1826, twenty-two km to the southeast, the bottom<br />

temperature was 1.570e at 5415 m. The warmest bottom<br />

temperature observed on any other station was 1.650e at<br />

5389 m (ATLANTIS II Sta. 1833). Although we were not able<br />

to repeat Station 1825, earlier observations near this<br />

station include anomalously warm temperatures (in the area<br />

warmer than 1.70e west of the outer ridge, Fig. 6.3) but<br />

none as warm as 1.8°6.<br />

The isotherms and isohalines are spaced more closely<br />

between 1.6°6 and 1.8°6 than above and below this interval<br />

(Fig. 6.4) on every station except the anomalously warm<br />

station ATLANTIS II 1825. A nearly isothermal bottom layer<br />

colder than 1.6°6 was observed on all stations except a few<br />

made in water shallower than 5400 m, where the gradi ent<br />

persisted to the bottom. The layer of increased gradient<br />

begins at 1.81 + .060e at a depth of 4840 ~ 250 m, and it<br />

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ends at 1.58 + .040e at 5290 + 150 m. The potential tempera-<br />

ture gradient above the layer is 0.20 + .03°6/km, and below<br />

the layer it is 0 to 0.200e/km. Within the layer it averages<br />

o . 55 ° e / k m wit h a ran g e fro mO. 33 to 1. 29 ° e / k m . Th e va ria t ion<br />

within the layer may result in part from the wide bottle<br />

spa c i n g (u P to 2 00 m) n ear the top 0 f the 1 aye r . Sin c e the<br />

adiabatic gradient at these depths and temperatures is about<br />

0.13°C/km, the observed temperatures above and below the<br />

layer are very nearly isothermal.<br />

This type of structure is observed in the southwestern<br />

North Atlantic wherever deep stations are made with close

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