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UNTIL very recently, it has been generally assumed that the deep-water circulation in the Indian Ocean was very similar to that of the Atlantic ; in certain features, such as the Antarctic bottom current and the Antarctic intermediate current, the close resemblance between the two oceans is still undisputed. It has, however, been suggested that the north Atlantic deep current— the highly saline deep current which Merz and Wiist (1922, p. 23) showed to flow southwards between the intermediate and bottom currents in the Atlantic Ocean has no parallel in the southern part of the Indian Ocean.
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Clowes, A., Deacon, G. The Deep-Water Circulation of the Indian Ocean. Nature 136, 936–938 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136936a0
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