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Of a lake: undergoing incomplete circulation at the fall overturn.

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  • Extreme clinograde oxygen distributions occur in meromictic lakes where the monimolimnion may have permanent oxygen deficits.
  • Ellesmere Island contains a range of unique aquatic ecosystems: ice shelves, epishelf lakes, meromictic lakes and tundra ponds.
  • Mineralogical studies of the impact crater near Mount Darwin are being conducted by the University of Tasmania, as are limnological studies of meromictic and other lakes.
  • Three meromictic lakes on the Lower Gordon River, of international repute for being permanently stratified and yet relatively shallow, are inhabited by diverse and...
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