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FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED LIMNOLOGY
Volume 173, Issue 4, Pages 329-351Publisher
E SCHWEIZERBARTSCHE VERLAGSBUCHHANDLUNG
DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2009/0173-0329
Keywords
Hard water lake; ultra-oligotrophic lake; groundwater systems; paleolimnology
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- Canadian Space Agency's 'Canadian Analog Research Network' Program
- NASA ASTEP
- Spaceward Bound
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- National Geographic Society
- National Research Council/Oak Ridge Associated Universities Post-Doctoral Research Associateship Program
- Davies Charitable Foundation
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The objectives of this study are two-fold: (1) to describe and quantify the seasonal physical and chemical limnological properties of Pavilion Lake, a microbialite-rich lake in British Columbia, Canada, and (2) to gain a broader limnological context of Pavilion Lake by examining the limnology and hydrology of the lakes and groundwater systems in the area (similar to 30 km radius). Pavilion Lake is a dimictic lake with annual ice-cover. It is a hard water (mean CaCO3 = 181.8 mg L-1), ultra-oligotrophic (mean Total Phosphorus [TP] = 3.3 mu g L-1) lake, that is groundwater fed most likely through diffuse, low velocity local and regional sources. Principal Components Analysis (PCA) separated Pavilion Lake from the other groundwater, stream and lake samples along a conductivity and pH gradient on Axis 1 (lambda(1) = 0.392), and a nutrient (Total Nitrogen [TN], TP) and K+, Mg2+, Si gradient on the second axis (lambda(2) = 0.160). Pavilion Lake has the lowest Ca2+ and TP concentrations, and the highest Na+ concentrations and optical transmissivity amongst all sampled sites. Furthermore, the lake is characterized by low sedimentation rates. These characteristics are potentially important factors in supporting the past and on-going development of microbialites within the lake. Our study provides a limnochemical reference to consider in the conceptualization of ideal environments supporting large-scale microbialites.
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