Show GEOGRAPHY hypothesis defines source of cold water belt of pacific coat berkeley cal dec 13 the cold water belt that borders the pacific coast Is discussed in a bulletin just by the department 6 geology 0 ho state university professor II 11 S writing of it as a characteristic feature of the physical geography of the west coast ot the united states in denning the extent pt this cold belt holway flares its southern limit at point conception and shows that it does not continue southward along the court of the peninsula of lower california as has been supposed by other geographers in summer the coldest part of this belt is in the of cape blanco and cape the source of this cold coastal water according to professor Hol ways hypothesis is in the ocean depths to the northwestward whence it drifts at or near the ocean bottom in agreement with the average direction cf the drift and is dairen to the surface on striking the slope of the continental |