Excerpt from Surface Currents in Lake Michigan: 1954 and 1955 Near coast lines. Secondary effects of the wind become important through alteration of density which in turn cause littoral currents (sverdrup; Johnson. And Fleming In Lake Michigan where the ratio of length to width is approximately 5: l, the littoral cur rents become increasingly important in the general circulation of the lake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.