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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Epilimnion (section Lake Turnover and Mixing)
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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Sea of Galilee (redirect from Lake of Tiberias)
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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Geography of Japan (section Lakes and coasts)
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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