BIOLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS IN HUDSON BAY: 6. THE GENERAL HYDROGRAPHY AND HYDRODYNAMICS OF THE WATERS OF THE HUDSON BAY REGION

• Published in: Contributions to Canadian Biology and Fisheries
• Main Author: HACHEY, H. B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1932
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; General Engineering; General Environmental Science; Hudson Bay; Hudson; Hudson Strait; James Bay
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f32-009; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f32-009

The waters of Hudson bay differ markedly from the waters of Hudson strait and the waters of the open ocean. Intense stratification in the upper twenty-five metres, decreasing as the waters of the open ocean are approached, gives Hudson bay the character of a large estuary. Below fifty metres the wat...