PHYSICOCHEMICAL LIMNOLOGY OF LAKE BONNEY, ANTARCTICA

• Published in: Limnology and Oceanography
• Main Authors: Angino, Ernest E., Armitage, Kenneth B., Tash, Jerry C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1964
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica; Victoria Land
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.1964.9.2.0207; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.4319%2Flo.1964.9.2.0207; https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4319/lo.1964.9.2.0207

Lake Bonney is a permanently ice‐covered lake of 3.2 km 2 in upper Taylor Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The mean depth, without ice cover, is 18.7 m. The lake probably occupies a glacially overdeepened valley. The lake is meromictic. The maximal temperature of 7C coincides with the chemocline a...