The hydrography and the distribution of chaetognaths over the continental shelf off North Carolina
Bumpus, D.F.; Lowe Pierce, E. (1955). The hydrography and the distribution of chaetognaths over the continental shelf off North Carolina, in: Papers in Marine Biology and Oceanography. Dedicated to Henry Bryant Bigelow, By His Former Students and Associates on the occasion of The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1955. Deep-Sea Research (1953), 3(Supplement): pp. 92-109
In: (1955). Papers in Marine Biology and Oceanography. Dedicated to Henry Bryant Bigelow, By His Former Students and Associates on the occasion of The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 1955. Deep-Sea Research (1953), 3(Supplement). Pergamon Press: London & New York. 498 pp., more
In: Deep-Sea Research (1953). Pergamon: Oxford; New York. ISSN 0146-6291; e-ISSN 1878-2485, more
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- Bumpus, D.F.
- Lowe Pierce, E.
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Temperature, salinity and quantitative plankton data have been obtained from the continental shelf area and Florida Current off North Carolina in May and June 1953 and January 1954. Two water types, Virginian Coastal water and Carolinian Coastal water, and one water mass, Florida Current water, are identified. A breaching of the barrier at Hatteras between the two coastal water types was witnessed, and Virginian Coastal water was driven south-westerly across Diamond Shoals into Raleigh Bay by a north-east storm. The import of such an hydrographic event on the distribution of plankton is discussed. The distribution of the chaetognaths in the area was investigated and their association with the water type and water mass tabulated. Twelve species representing three genera were collected. All of these are found in tropical and sub-tropical waters. Chaetognaths fail as satisfactory indicators of the Virginian Coastal water intrusion into Raleigh Bay because of the absence, in our collection, of characteristically Virginian types in the southern limits of that faunal subprovince. |
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