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Holomictic lakes are non-meromictic
Meromictic

A meromictic lake has layers of water which do not intermix. In ordinary, "holomictic" lakes, at least once each year there is a physical mixing of the surface and the deep waters....
 lakes (i.e., at some time during the year, the water in holomictic lakes will have a uniform temperature and density from top to bottom, allowing the lake waters to completely mix). Although the permanent ice-cover of amictic
Amictic

Amictic lakes are holomictic lakes that are permanently ice-covered. They are restricted to very cold climates .ReferencesSee also...
 lakes prevents mixing, they are also regarded as being holomictic.

Most lakes are holomictic; meromictic lakes are considered rare, although they may be more common than generally acknowledged,








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Holomictic lakes are non-meromictic
Meromictic

A meromictic lake has layers of water which do not intermix. In ordinary, "holomictic" lakes, at least once each year there is a physical mixing of the surface and the deep waters....
 lakes (i.e., at some time during the year, the water in holomictic lakes will have a uniform temperature and density from top to bottom, allowing the lake waters to completely mix). Although the permanent ice-cover of amictic
Amictic

Amictic lakes are holomictic lakes that are permanently ice-covered. They are restricted to very cold climates .ReferencesSee also...
 lakes prevents mixing, they are also regarded as being holomictic.

Most lakes are holomictic; meromictic lakes are considered rare, although they may be more common than generally acknowledged,

See also

  • Amictic
    Amictic

    Amictic lakes are holomictic lakes that are permanently ice-covered. They are restricted to very cold climates .ReferencesSee also...
  • Dimictic lake
    Dimictic lake

    Dimictic lakes are holomictic lakes that mix from top to bottom during two mixing periods each year. During winter they are covered by ice. During summer they are thermally stratified, with temperature-derived density differences separating the warm surface waters , from the colder bottom waters ....
  • Meromictic
    Meromictic

    A meromictic lake has layers of water which do not intermix. In ordinary, "holomictic" lakes, at least once each year there is a physical mixing of the surface and the deep waters....
  • Monomictic
    Monomictic

    Monomictic lakes are holomictic lakes that mix from top to bottom during one mixing period each year. Monomictic lakes may be subdivided into two types:...
  • Polymictic
    Polymictic

    Polymictic lakes are holomictic lakes that are too shallow to develop thermal stratification; thus, their waters can mix from top to bottom throughout the ice-free period....
  • Thermocline
    Thermocline

    The thermocline is a thin but distinct layer in a large body of fluid , in which temperature changes more rapidly with depth than it does in the layers above or below....


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