• Monomictic lakes are holomictic lakes that mix from top to bottom during one mixing period each year. Monomictic lakes may be subdivided into cold and...
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    Lake mixing regimes can shift in response to increasing air temperatures. Some dimictic lakes can turn into monomictic lakes, while some monomictic lakes...
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    Blue Lake / Warwar (The Blue Lake) is a large, monomictic, crater lake located in a dormant volcanic maar associated with the Mount Gambier maar complex...
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    amended in 1996. Lake Berryessa is a monomictic lake, which means that the waters of the lake turnover once a year. For monomictic lakes that turnover time...
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  • Amictic lakes are sealed off by ice and never mix. There are five types of holomictic lakes: Polymictic (mixing many times annually) Cold Monomictic (mixing...
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    monomictic lakes, the mixing occurs once per year; in dimictic lakes, it occurs twice a year (typically spring and autumn), and in polymictic lakes,...
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  • lake Meromictic lake Monomictic lake Dimictic lake Thermocline Lakes portal Lewis, William M. Jr. (1983). "A revised classification of lakes based on mixing"...
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    throughout the lake. There are different names for these turnovers based on how many times the lake does it in a year. Monomictic lakes flip only once...
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  • Amictic Holomictic Meromictic Monomictic Polymictic Thermocline Lewis, William M. Jr. (1983). "A revised classification of lakes based on mixing" (PDF). Canadian...
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    A lake ecosystem or lacustrine ecosystem includes biotic (living) plants, animals and micro-organisms, as well as abiotic (non-living) physical and chemical...
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    many other small streams. The lake is classified as 'warm monomictic' under the sub-tropical lake category. Spring sources also contribute to the flow, although...
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    Pangong Tso (redirect from Pangong lake)
    or Pangong Lake (Tibetan: སྤང་གོང་མཚོ; Chinese: 班公错; pinyin: Bān gōng cuò; Hindi: पैंगोंग झील, romanized: Paiṅgoṅg jhīl) is an endorheic lake spanning eastern...
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    into amictic lakes, cold monomictic lakes, dimictic lakes, warm monomictic lakes, polymictic lakes, and oligomictic lakes. Lake stratification does not...
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    precipitation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Kalamalka Lake is an oligotrophic, monomictic marl lake with high alkalinity and hardness. From fall to spring...
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    is a species of tubificid segmented worm which inhabits the sediments of lakes and rivers on several continents. Tubifex likely includes several species...
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    The hypolimnion or under lake is the dense, bottom layer of water in a thermally-stratified lake. The word "hypolimnion" is derived from Ancient Greek:...
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    monomictic lakes in Westland National Park, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany. 17 (2): 127–134. doi:10.1080/0028825X.1979.10426885. "Lake Matheson...
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    A. (1979). "Comments on the phytoplankton and chemistry of three monomictic lakes in Westland National Park, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Botany...
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    onset of a period of "meromixis" in Mono Lake. In the time prior to this, Mono Lake was typically "monomictic"; which means that at least once each year...
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    desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake. By volume it is the world's fourth-largest salt lake after the Caspian Sea, Issyk-Kul, and Lake Van (passing...
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    Titicaca. The lake has 41 islands, some of which are densely populated. Having only a single season of free circulation, the lake is monomictic, and water...
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    also called Lake Tiberias or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the second-lowest lake in the world...
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    open and well-lit area of a freestanding body of fresh water, such as a lake or pond. Not included in this area is the littoral zone, which is the shallow...
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    prepared to support of the five year management program. Lake Whatcom is a monomictic lake. The water body is stratified for part of the year (late spring...
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    Issyk-Kul (redirect from Issyk-kul Lake)
    Ysyk-Köl (Kyrgyz: Ысык-Көл, [ɯsɯq kœl], "Warm Lake") is an endorheic (i.e., without outflow) saline lake in the western Tianshan Mountains in eastern Kyrgyzstan...
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    largest freshwater lake is Lake Biwa (670.3 km2 (258.8 sq mi)), northeast of Kyoto in Shiga Prefecture. Lake Biwa is an ancient lake and is estimated to...
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  • lake Meromictic lake Monomictic lake Polymictic lake Thermocline Hutchinson, G. E.; Löffler, H. (1956). "The Thermal Classification of Lakes". PNAS. 42 (2):...
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    Quamichan Lake and its sister Somenos Lake were created 11,000 years ago by receding glaciers. Both lakes contribute to Cowichan River. Quamichan Lake's outflow...
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  • The profundal zone is the deep zone of a lake, located below the range of effective light penetration. This is typically below the thermocline, the vertical...
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    "Catchment and Lake Controls Over the Formation of Varves in Monomictic Nicolay Lake, Cornwall Island, Nunavut". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences...
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