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Table 1.

The sums of the values of activity of the residue from

one liter of sea weter and of the filtered water, less K

exch atation and depth are given in Table 2.

4Q

3

for

Figure 4 is a graph-

te presentation of the data from Table 1 along with the plankton
values.

It

is evident from this figure that elthough the abso-

lute values for the various depths or kinds of samples are differ-

ent,

the general pattern of horizontal distribution of activity

ie approximately the same.

The distribution of activity in the

surface water samples is plotted in Figure 5.
The highest levels of total activity in the surface water

(residue on filter paper plus fillterable portion, less Kt) were
found tetween Fniwetok and Ujelang, and the lowest value north-

east of Bikini.

These values were 19,000 d/m/l and 48 d/m/1.

Values in the vicinity of Guam are 4 to 20 times the lower value,
indicating that some contamination from Operation Redwing had
reached this

far.

Possible interpretations of

the relation-

ship between water and plankton activity are discussed on pages

e7 - 33.
At every depth sampled the particulate matter retained on

the filter had lower levels of activity than did the filterable
fraction;

this was

true also for the Walton samples with the

exception of the surface water,

in which the particulate matter

The average values of ra-

dioactivity in the two fractions and the percentages from both
the Marsh and Walton data are presented for comparison in Table

3.

In both sets of data the particulate matter contributes

et

about three times as much of the total activity in the surface
at

*t

contained 58 percent of the activity.

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