Water chemistry and diatom occurrences in sediments of Terrasovoje, Radok and Beaver Lake, Amery Oasis, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Cremer, Holger, Gore, Damian B, Hultzsch, Nadja, Melles, Martin, Wagner, Bernd
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2004
• Subjects: Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; SPP1158; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; East Antarctica; Phytoplankton; Polar Biology; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.847363; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.847363

The diatom flora of three lakes in the ice-free Amery Oasis, East Antarctica, was studied. Two of the lakes are meltwater reservoirs, Terrasovoje Lake (31 m depth) and Radok Lake (362 m depth), while Beaver Lake (>435 m depth) is an epishelf lake. The lakes can be characterized as cold, ultra-oli...