Abstract
THE report on the marine deposits of the south part of the North Sea, referred to below, may be characterised as being long overdue, since it is founded on about 600 samples taken by the Marine Biological Association's steamers in 1904–8, when that Society was undertaking the English share of the International investigations. How extraordinarily efficiently that share of the work was done is illustrated by the reports published on the collections and material and in the peculiar discrimination shown in the selection of these samples. It is common knowledge that much of the substance of this report was known to the Admiralty during the War, proving of value in respect to navigation in foggy and other difficult weather. The area treated, the North Sea roughly from the latitude of the Scottish border to the Straits of Dover, is an exceedingly difficult one on account of the complexity of its past geological changes and the variety of its currents, whether produced by wind or other means, acting in a comparatively shallow sea, much broken by banks (especially in its western parts) and intersected by pits and troughs, of which the Dogger Bank, depth 7 fm., and the Silver Pit, 56 fm., may be mentioned.
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G., J. The Floor of the North Sea. Nature 112, 706–707 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112706b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112706b0