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Density Stratified Lakes in Northern Ellesmere Island

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THE discovery of density stratification in Lake Tuborg, northern Ellesmere Island (lat. 80° 50′ N, long. 79° W)1, alerted us to the possibility that other lakes in the area might show the same phenomenon, provided they were near enough to sea level to allow the trapping of seawater either through advance of a glacier or through postglacial rise of land. Lake Tuborg is an example of a lake that has been cut off from a fiord (Greely Fiord) by glacier advance; the radiocarbon age of the old seawater near the bottom of the lake indicates that this occurred about 3,000 yr ago2.

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    G. HATTERSLEY-SMITH, J. E. KEYS & H. SERSON

  2. Radiation Biology Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC , 20560

    JAMES E. MIELKE

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HATTERSLEY-SMITH, G., KEYS, J., SERSON, H. et al. Density Stratified Lakes in Northern Ellesmere Island. Nature 225, 55–56 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225055a0

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