{{Short description|Permanently stratified lake with layers of water that do not intermix}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} [[File:McGinnis Lake panorama1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.275|McGinnis Lake is a meromictic lake within the Petroglyphs Provincial Park.]] [[File:Lac Pavin Vue géné.JPG|thumb|Lac Pavin in France is a meromictic crater lake.]] A '''meromictic lake''' is a lake which has layers of water that do not intermix.<ref name="Wetzel2001" /> In ordinary, holomictic lakes, at least once each year, there is a physical mixing of the surface and the deep waters.<ref name=Lewis1983 />

The term ''meromictic'' was coined by the Austrian Ingo Findenegg in 1935, apparently based on the older word ''holomictic''. The concepts and terminology used in describing meromictic lakes were essentially complete following some additions by G. Evelyn Hutchinson in 1937.<ref name=Hakala2004 /><ref name=Findenegg /><ref name=Hutchinson />

== Characteristics == {{lake stratification topics}} [[File:LSE Stratification.png|thumb|left|upright=1.35|Typical mixing pattern for a dimictic lake. This does not occur in meromictic lakes]]

Most lakes are ''holomictic'': at least once per year, the surface and the deep waters mix. In monomictic lakes, the mixing occurs once per year; in dimictic lakes, it occurs twice a year (typically spring and autumn), and in polymictic lakes, the mixing occurs several times a year. In meromictic lakes, the layers of water can remain unmixed for years, decades, or centuries.

Meromictic lakes can usually be divided into three sections or layers. The bottom layer is the ''monimolimnion''; the waters in this portion of the lake circulate little, and are generally hypoxic and more saline than the rest of the lake. The top layer is the ''mixolimnion'', and essentially behaves like a holomictic lake. The area in between is the chemocline, or chemolimnion.<ref name=Walker1974 />

The lack of mixing between layers creates radically different environments for life: the stratification, or stable layering, of lake waters means that the bottom layer receives little oxygen from the atmosphere, hence becomes depleted of oxygen. While the surface layer may have 10&nbsp;mg/L or more dissolved oxygen in summer, the depths of a meromictic lake can have less than 1&nbsp;mg/L.<ref name=LampertSommer /> Very few organisms can live in such an oxygen-poor environment. One exception is purple sulfur bacteria. These bacteria, commonly found at the top of the monimolimnion in such lakes, use sulfur compounds such as sulfides in photosynthesis. These compounds are produced by decomposition of organic sediments in oxygen-poor environments. The monimolimnion is often rich in phosphorus and nitrogen. These factors combine to create an ideal environment for bacterial growth. The mixolimnion can have similar qualities. However, the types of bacteria that can grow at the surface are determined by the amount of light received at the surface.<ref name=Fry1986 />

A meromictic lake may form because the basin is unusually deep and steep-sided compared to the lake's surface area, or because the lower layer of the lake is highly saline and denser than the upper layers of water.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Stewart |first1=K. M. |title=Meromictic Lakes |date=2009-01-01 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Inland Waters |pages=589–602 |editor-last=Likens |editor-first=Gene E. |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123706263000272 |access-date=2024-04-12 |place=Oxford |publisher=Academic Press |doi=10.1016/b978-012370626-3.00027-2 |isbn=978-0-12-370626-3 |last2=Walker |first2=K. F. |last3=Likens |first3=G. E.|url-access=subscription }}</ref> However, human influence can lead to cultural meromixis occurring.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Sibert |first1=Ryan J. |last2=Koretsky |first2=Carla M. |last3=Wyman |first3=Davina A. |date=2015 |title=Cultural meromixis: Effects of road salt on the chemical stratification of an urban kettle lake |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0009254114005853 |journal=Chemical Geology |language=en |volume=395 |pages=126–137 |doi=10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.12.010|bibcode=2015ChGeo.395..126S |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Dupuis |first1=Danielle |last2=Sprague |first2=Emily |last3=Docherty |first3=Kathryn M. |last4=Koretsky |first4=Carla M. |date=2019-04-15 |title=The influence of road salt on seasonal mixing, redox stratification and methane concentrations in urban kettle lakes |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719302116 |journal=Science of the Total Environment |volume=661 |pages=514–521 |doi=10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.191 |pmid=30682604 |bibcode=2019ScTEn.661..514D |issn=0048-9697|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kjensmo |first=Johannes |date=1997 |title=The influence of road salts on the salinity and the meromictic stability of Lake Svinsjøen, southeastern Norway |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1023/A:1003035705729 |journal=Hydrobiologia |volume=347 |issue=1/3 |pages=151–159 |doi=10.1023/A:1003035705729|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The increased use of road salt as a deicing strategy, particularly in northern latitude regions, can disturb the natural mixing cycles in lakes by inhibiting mixing.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ladwig |first1=Robert |last2=Rock |first2=Linnea A. |last3=Dugan |first3=Hilary A. |date=2023 |title=Impact of salinization on lake stratification and spring mixing |journal=Limnology and Oceanography Letters |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=93–102 |doi=10.1002/lol2.10215 |bibcode=2023LimOL...8...93L |issn=2378-2242|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Smoll |first1=John P. |last2=Brown |first2=S. R. |last3=McNeely |first3=R. N. |date=1983 |title=Cultural disturbances and trophic history of a small meromictic lake from central Canada |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF00028439 |journal=Hydrobiologia |language=en |volume=103 |issue=1 |pages=125–130 |doi=10.1007/BF00028439 |issn=0018-8158|url-access=subscription }}</ref> As salt is flushed into aquatic systems at high concentrations in late winter/early spring, it accumulates in the deepest layer of lakes leading to incomplete mixing.

Stratification in meromictic lakes can be either endogenic or ectogenic. Endogenic means the patterns seen in the lake are caused by internal events, such as organic matter accumulating in the sediments and decaying, whereas ectogenic means the patterns seen are caused by external causes, like an intrusion of saltwater settling in the hypolimnion, preventing it from mixing.<ref name="Wetzel2001" />

The layers of sediment at the bottom of a meromictic lake remain relatively undisturbed because there is little physical mixing and few living organisms to agitate them. There is also little chemical decomposition. For this reason, cores of the sediment at the bottom of meromictic lakes are important in tracing past changes in climate at the lake, by examining trapped pollen grains and the types of sediments [see Proxy (climate)].

When the layers do mix for whatever reason, the consequences can be devastating for organisms that normally live in the mixolimnion. This layer is usually much smaller in volume than the monimolimnion. When the layers mix, the oxygen concentration at the surface will decrease dramatically. This can result in the death of many organisms, such as fish, that require oxygen.

Occasionally, carbon dioxide, methane, or other dissolved gases can build up relatively undisturbed in the lower layers of a meromictic lake. When the stratification is disturbed, as could happen from an earthquake, a limnic eruption may result. In 1986, a notable event of this type took place at Lake Nyos in Cameroon, causing nearly 1,800 deaths.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Krajick |first=Kevin |date=2003-03-28 |title=Africa's Davids and Goliaths |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.299.5615.2024 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=299 |issue=5615 |pages=2024–2026 |doi=10.1126/science.299.5615.2024 |pmid=12663915 |issn=0036-8075|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Boehrer |first1=Bertram |last2=Saiki |first2=Kazuto |last3=Ohba |first3=Takeshi |last4=Tanyileke |first4=Greg |last5=Rouwet |first5=Dmitri |last6=Kusakabe |first6=Minoru |date=2021-07-28 |title=Carbon Dioxide in Lake Nyos, Cameroon, Estimated Quantitatively From Sound Speed Measurements |journal=Frontiers in Earth Science |volume=9 |doi=10.3389/feart.2021.645011 |doi-access=free |issn=2296-6463}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tassi |first1=Franco |last2=Rouwet |first2=Dmitri |date=2014-02-12 |title=An overview of the structure, hazards, and methods of investigation of Nyos-type lakes from the geochemical perspective |url=http://www.jlimnol.it/index.php/jlimnol/article/view/jlimnol.2014.836 |journal=Journal of Limnology |volume=73 |issue=1 |doi=10.4081/jlimnol.2014.836 |issn=1723-8633|doi-access=free }}</ref> In the following decades after this disaster, active research and management has been done to mitigate gas buildup in the future through the Nyos Organ Pipes Program (NOPP).<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Halbwachs |first1=Michel |last2=Sabroux |first2=Jean-Christophe |last3=Kayser |first3=Gaston |date=2020 |title=Final step of the 32-year Lake Nyos degassing adventure: Natural CO2 recharge is to be balanced by discharge through the degassing pipes |journal=Journal of African Earth Sciences |language=en |volume=167 |article-number=103575 |doi=10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103575|doi-access=free }}</ref> The NOPP program placed large organ pipes into Lake Nyos, to reach the monimolimnion where harmful dissolved gases built up, that allow for gas release to the atmosphere, effectively degassing the monimolimnion.<ref name=":0" /> Since 2019, Lake Nyos has successfully been degassed to a nonhazardous concentration of dissolved gas.<ref name=":0" /> Paralleling Lake Nyos, Lake Kivu is another lake that poses a potentially fatal threat to the community. Some management strategies have suggested taking a different approach, moving gases from the monimolimnion to the mixolimnion, rather than degassing to the atmosphere through organ pipes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hirslund |first1=F. |last2=Morkel |first2=P. |date=2020 |title=Managing the dangers in Lake Kivu – How and why |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1464343X19303279 |journal=Journal of African Earth Sciences |language=en |volume=161 |article-number=103672 |doi=10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103672|bibcode=2020JAfES.16103672H |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

While it is mainly lakes that are meromictic, the world's largest meromictic basin is the Black Sea. The deep waters below {{Convert|50|m|ft|abbr=on|sp=us}} do not mix with the upper layers that receive oxygen from the atmosphere. As a result, over 90% of the deeper Black Sea volume is anoxic water. The Caspian Sea is anoxic below {{Convert|100|m|ft|abbr=on|sp=us}}. The Baltic Sea is persistently stratified, with dense, highly saline water comprising the bottom layer, and large areas of hypoxic sediments (see Baltic Sea hypoxia).

[[File:P6270090 1.jpg|thumb|Strandvatnet in Nordland down to the left; only a small isthmus separates the lake from Ofotfjord.]] [[File:Lac du Bourget 2.jpg|thumb|{{Lang|fr|Lac du Bourget|italic=no}} is the largest and deepest lake in France]] [[File:Greenlake.jpg|thumb|Green Lake is a meromictic lake near Syracuse, New York.]] [[File:Sunfish Sunshine copy.jpg|thumb|upright|Sunfish Lake is a meromictic lake near Waterloo, Ontario.]] [[File:Kluft-photo-SodaLake-pano-2018-11.jpg|thumb|Big Soda Lake is a meromictic lake in a volcanic crater near Fallon, Nevada]] [[File:Soap Lake.jpg|thumb|Soapy foam on the shore of Soap Lake in Washington]]

== List of meromictic lakes == [[File:Pakasaivo 1.jpg|thumb|Lake Pakasaivo, a meromictic lake in Muonio, Finland]] There are meromictic lakes all over the world. The distribution appears to be clustered, but this may be due to incomplete investigations. Depending on the exact definition of "meromictic", the ratio between meromictic and holomictic lakes worldwide is around 1:1000.<ref name=Hakala2005 />

=== Africa === * Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun in Cameroon * Lake Kivu in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo * Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia * Lake Malawi, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania

=== Antarctica === * Lake Vanda in Ross Dependency * 21 lakes, including Organic Lake in Vestfold Hills<ref name="Gibson1999">Gibson, John AE. (1999). "The meromictic lakes and stratified marine basins of the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica." Antarctic Science 11.2, 175–192.</ref>

=== Asia === * Lake Shira in the Republic of Khakassia, Russia * Keracut Beach Lake, Penang National Park, northwest Penang island, Malaysia * Jellyfish Lake, on Eil Malk in Palau * Zigetangcuo Lake, a crenogenic lake in Nagqu, Tibet, China. It is the meromictic lake located at the highest altitude.<ref name=Likens2010 /> * Kaptai Lake, in Rangamati Hill District, at the southeastern part of Bangladesh. It was created by constructing a dam at Kaptai to set up a hydroelectric power plant. * Lake Matano, Sulawesi island, Indonesia * Lake Suigetsu, Fukui Prefecture, Japan

=== Australia === * Lake Fidler, in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

=== Europe === * {{ill|Kärntner Seen|de|lt=''Kärntner Seen''}} (Alpine lakes in the Austrian province of Carinthia; studied by Ingo Findenegg in the 1930s). * Alatsee near Füssen and Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany * Lake {{ill|Vähä-Pitkusta|fi}} in Finland * Lake {{ill|Pakasaivo|fi}} in Finland * Lough Furnace in Ireland * Salvatnet, Kilevann, Tronstadvatn, Birkelandsvatn, Rørholtfjorden, Botnvatn, Rørhopvatn and Strandvatn lakes in Norway * Czarne Lake in Drawa National Park, Poland * Lake Mogilnoye in Murmansk Oblast of Russia * Lake Cadagno, crenogenic, in Switzerland, and the location of the Alpine Biology Center<ref name=CtrBioAlpina /> * Lac Pavin and {{Lang|fr|Lac du Bourget|italic=no}} in France<ref name=Jacquet2003 /> * The Black Sea – while not a lake – is also considered to be meromictic. * Lake El Tobar in Cuenca, Spain * Lake La Cruz in Cuenca, Spain

=== North America === <!-- The lakes listed here should either (i) have Wikipedia articles that include a reference indicating that the lake is meromictic, or (ii) give a reference to the source of the information here.--> * Canada ** Lake McKay in Ottawa, Ontario ** Lakes A and C1 on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut<ref>{{Cite journal|doi = 10.1139/as-2017-0022|title = Hyperpycnal flows control the persistence and flushing of hypoxic high conductivity bottom water in a High Arctic lake|year = 2017|last1 = Lewis|first1 = Ted|last2 = Lamoureux|first2 = Scott F.|last3 = Normandeau|first3 = Alexandre|last4 = Dugan|first4 = Hilary A.|journal = Arctic Science| article-number=AS-2017-0022 |doi-access = free|hdl = 1807/81139|hdl-access = free}}</ref> ** Blackcat Lake near Dorset, Ontario, in Frost Centre ** Crawford Lake near Milton, Ontario ** <!--Sandy Lake ambiguous-->Picard Lake<!--see ref--> near Lakehurst, Ontario<ref>[https://trentlakes.civicweb.net/document/20008 Council Meeting - 19 Jan 2016 - Municipality of Trent Lakes]</ref> ** Mahoney Lake in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia ** McGinnis Lake in Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Ontario<ref>[https://www.ontarioparks.com/park/petroglyphs Ontario Parks: Petroglyphs]</ref> ** Pink Lake in Gatineau Park, Quebec ** Powell Lake in the town of Powell River, British Columbia<ref name=Sanderson/> ** Sunfish Lake near Waterloo, Ontario ** Little Round Lake (Ontario) in Central Frontenac, Ontario<ref>{{Cite book|doi=10.1007/978-94-009-7290-2_20|chapter=Cultural disturbances and trophic history of a small meromictic lake from central Canada|title=Paleolimnology|year=1983|last1=Smol|first1=John P.|last2=Brown|first2=S. R.|last3=McNeely|first3=R. N.|pages=125–130|isbn=978-94-009-7292-6}}</ref> ** Teapot Lake, Heart Lake Conservation Area, Brampton, Ontario. See also Heart Lake (Ontario)<ref>[http://www.trca.on.ca/dotAsset/148584.pdf Heart Lake Conservation Area: Master Plan], Heart Lake Conservation Area Master Plan Advisory Committee, Conservation Land Planning Group, TRCA</ref> * Central America ** Lake Atitlán, endorheic lake in the department of Sololá, Guatemala * United States ** Ballston Lake, north northwest of Albany, New York<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Jaime L. |last1=Toney |first2=Donald T. |last2=Rodbell |first3=Norton G. |last3=Miller |title=Sedimentologic and palynologic records of the last deglaciation and Holocene from Ballston Lake, New York |journal=Quaternary Research |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=189–199 |date=2003 |doi=10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00093-0 |bibcode=2003QuRes..60..189T |s2cid=129373891 |url=http://minerva.union.edu/rodbelld/publications/2003_Toney_etal.pdf |access-date=2018-09-09}}</ref> ** Big Soda Lake, Nevada<ref name=CloernCole/> ** Brownie Lake in Minneapolis, Minnesota<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Nicholas |last1=Lambrecht |first2=Chad |last2=Wittkop |first3=Sergei |last3=Katsev |first4=Mojtaba |last4=Fakhraee | first5=Elizabeth |last5=Swanner |title=Geochemical Characterization of Two Ferruginous Meromictic Lakes in the Upper Midwest, USA |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences |volume=123 |issue=10 |pages=3403–3422 |doi=10.1029/2018JG004587 |year=2018 |bibcode=2018JGRG..123.3403L |doi-access=free }}</ref> ** Canyon Lake near Big Bay, Michigan<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Nicholas |last1=Lambrecht |first2=Chad |last2=Wittkop |first3=Sergei |last3=Katsev |first4=Mojtaba |last4=Fakhraee | first5=Elizabeth D. |last5=Swanner| title=Geochemical Characterization of Two Ferruginous Meromictic Lakes in the Upper Midwest, USA |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences |volume=123 |issue=10 |pages=3403–3422 |doi=10.1029/2018JG004587 |year=2018 |bibcode=2018JGRG..123.3403L |doi-access=free }}</ref> ** Chapel Lake, in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, near Munising, Michigan<ref name=NPSPicRocks/> ** Great Salt Lake near Salt Lake City, Utah ** Green Lake and Round Lake in Green Lakes State Park near Syracuse, New York ** Hot Lake in Okanogan County, Washington<ref name=Anderson1958/> ** Knaack Lake, Wisconsin<ref name=ParkinBrock /> ** Lake Mary, in the northwest corner of Vilas County, Wisconsin<ref name=WeimarLee/> ** Lower Mystic Lake in Arlington and Medford, Massachusetts ** Redoubt Lake near Sitka, Alaska; one of North America's largest meromictic lakes<ref name=Mccoy/> ** Soap Lake in Washington

== See also == * Limnological tower

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Fred |last2=Lee |title=Some Considerations of the Chemical Limnology of Meromictic Lake Mary |journal=Limnology and Oceanography |volume=18 |issue=3 |pages=414–425 |jstor=2834466 |date=May 1973 |name-list-style=amp |doi=10.4319/lo.1973.18.3.0414|bibcode=1973LimOc..18..414W |doi-access=free}}</ref> <ref name="CloernCole">{{cite journal |last1=Cloern |first1=James E. |first2=Brian E. |last2=Cole|author3-link=Ronald Oremland |first3=Ronald S. |last3=Oremland |title=Autotrophic Processes in Meromictic Big Soda Lake, Nevada |journal=Limnology and Oceanography |jstor=2836268 |volume=28 |issue=6 |pages=1049–1061 |date=November 1983 |name-list-style=amp|doi=10.4319/lo.1983.28.6.1049 |bibcode=1983LimOc..28.1049C |doi-access=free}}</ref> <ref name="ParkinBrock">{{cite journal |last1=Parkin |first1=T.B. |last2=Brock |first2=T.D. |title=The Role of Phototrophic Bacteria in the Sulfur Cycle of a Meromictic Lake |journal=Limnology and Oceanography |date=September 1981 |volume=26 |issue=5 |pages=880–890 |doi=10.4319/lo.1981.26.5.0880 |name-list-style=amp |bibcode=1981LimOc..26..880P |doi-access=free}}</ref> <ref name="CtrBioAlpina">{{cite web |title=Lago di Cadagno |url=http://www.cadagno.ch/index.php?node=304&lng=1&rif=ed741cde39 |date=6 December 2014 |website=Centro Biologia Alpina |language=it |access-date=23 February 2015}}</ref> }}

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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070322172434/http://waterontheweb.org/under/lakeecology/05_stratification.html "Density Stratification"], part of an educational website [http://waterontheweb.org '''Water on the Web'''] operated by the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Retrieved 11-March-2007. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050511145736/http://www.hydro.com.au/home/Corporate/Media+Releases/Media+Releases+2004/Major+project+to+revive+meromictic+lake.htm Lake Fidler revived] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110715082004/http://www.photo-outing.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1:pantai-keracut&catid=1:penang&Itemid=8&lang=en&limitstart=1 photo-outing.com review over Pantai Kerachut with Memomictic lake]

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