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IT was accepted by us as one of the general conclusions from the temperature observations made on board the Challenger that the normal vertical arrangement of temperature in the ocean is somewhat in this wise. The water is warmest at the surface; from the surface it cools rapidly for the first hundred fathoms or so; it then cools more slowly down to five or six hundred fathoms; and then extremely slowly to the bottom, where the minimum temperature is reached.
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THOMSON, C. The Cruise of the “Knight Errant” . Nature 22, 405–407 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022405a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/022405a0