0 1994, by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Inc. Sediment oxygen profiles in a super-oxygenated antarctic lake

• Main Authors: Robert A. Wharton, Michael A. Meyer, Christopher P. Mckay, Rocco L. Mancinelli, George M. Simmons
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Hoare; Lake Hoare; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Taylor Valley; The Antarctic; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.508.337; http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_39/issue_4/0839.pdf

Perennially ice-covered lakes arc found in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. In contrast to tcmperatc 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 0, at su...