Here, then, is the place to complete the exploration, for which soundings and dredgingsgive only imperfect information.
Rough and stormy weather followed this fair start, and only two more dredgings were possible before reaching the Strait of Magellan.
With dredgings off the Rio de la Plata, and along the coast between that and the Rio Negro, the vessel held on her way to the Gulf of Mathias, a deep, broad bay running some hundred miles inland, and situated a little south of the Rio Negro.
Those in search of radiolaria for examination and study should, whenever possible, obtain small quantities of thedredgings from deep water.
This interesting anemone is usually seen among the dredgings of the trawler, but may be occasionally met with on the rocky coasts of the south-west, at extreme low-water mark.
Another method of delivering dredgings is that of pneumatic delivery, introduced by Mr F.
Shore delivery has been successfully effected by raising the material by buckets in the ordinary way and delivering it into a vertical cylinder connected with floating jointed pipes through which the dredgings pass to the shore.
These hopper barges are made with hinged flaps in their bottoms, which can be opened when the place of deposit is reached and the dredgings easily and quickly discharged.
The dredgings excavated by the bucket-ladder dredger were deposited in scows, which were towed to the front of the deposit ground and discharged by a suction pump fixed in a special boat, moored close to the bank of the river.
In this same area the dredgings of Stetson (1936) on Georges Bank and the Esso Hatteras Light test provide us with information on the stratigraphy of the sediments which form the continental shelf and slope.
Insufficient profiles and dredgings are available in this area to permit the correlation and dating of these benches.
All dredgings from Mid-Atlantic Ridge have brought up basalt and in some cases also gabbroic and serpentinized rock.
However, the rocks may actually be composed of dark material; no dredgingswere taken here.
The recent deep-sea dredgings in the Atlantic conducted by Dr.
A collection of erratics was brought up by the deep-sea trawl in the course of dredgings in Antarctic waters.
This comprised deep-sea dredgings at eleven stations in depths down to one thousand eight hundred fathoms and regular tow-nettings, frequently serial, to depths of two hundred fathoms.
Traps were lowered along the edge of the harbour-ice and dredgings were made in every possible situation.
Dredgings from depths down to fifty fathoms were made during the winter.
Dredgings in depths up to five fathoms were done inside the boat harbour and just off its entrance on five separate occasions between September 22 and the end of the month.
The dredgings gave at some places, for instance off Chabarova, a rich yield, especially of isopods and sponges.
The United States Coast Survey has, in connection with an exploration of the Gulf Stream, been the first to establish a systematic series of dredgings at great depths, continued during several years.
Port Penn on the Delaware, and especially from the dredgings {132}made by the removal of Smith's Island opposite the city.
We shall find many more such, when the deeper shore regions are explored, the region between market-fishing and the deep-sea dredgings of the Challenger and the Albatross.
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