Sediment oxygen profiles in a super‐oxygenated antarctic lake

• Published in: Limnology and Oceanography
• Main Authors: Wharton, Robert A., Meyer, Michael A., McKay, Christopher P., Mancinelli, Rocco L., Simmons, George M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1994
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Oceanography; Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Victoria Land; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Taylor Valley; Hoare; Lake Hoare; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.1994.39.4.0839; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.4319%2Flo.1994.39.4.0839; https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4319/lo.1994.39.4.0839

Perennially ice‐covered lakes are found in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In contrast to temperate lakes that have diurnal photic periods, antarctic (and arctic) lakes have a yearly photic period. An unusual feature of the antarctic lakes is the occurrence of O 2 at s...