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Bathymetric Mapping And Sonar Imaging Of Tufa At Green Lakes: Fayetteville, New York, Justin Stroup, Rachel Lee, Richard A. Frieman, Aidan Becker, Nicole Insolia
Bathymetric Mapping And Sonar Imaging Of Tufa At Green Lakes: Fayetteville, New York, Justin Stroup, Rachel Lee, Richard A. Frieman, Aidan Becker, Nicole Insolia
Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies
The Fayetteville Green Lakes State Park, located in Fayetteville, New York, consists of two deep (48 m+), meromictic (non-mixing) lakes with unique limnological, bacterial, and chemical characteristics. These lakes, named Round Lake and its larger companion Green Lake, have been extensively studied for nearly 200 years because of their unique character. The lake water contains two distinct layers, the oxygen-rich mixolimnion and the anoxic monimolimnion divided by the chemocline (a chemical compositional boundary). Tufa deposits exist along the shorelines of both lakes at various depths and are a product of groundwater output into the lakes, as well as the lakes’ …