Ecology of algal mats and their role in the formation of stromatolites in Antarctic dry valley lakes

• Main Author: Wharton, Robert A.
• Other Authors: Botany
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1982
• Subjects: LD5655.V856 1982.W527; Stromatolites; Paleobotany > Antarctica; Antarctic; Bonney; Canada; Canada Glacier; Fryxell; Hoare; Pinnacle; Vanda; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/87363

Algal mats comprised primarily of Phormidium frigidum Fritsch, Lyngbya martensiana Menegh., and several species of pennate diatoms are found in the below-ice benthic regions of Lakes Bonney, Chad, Hoare, Fryxell, and Vanda, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mats are also found in the littoral moat...