New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Trapped sea water in Lake Hakapoua, New Zealand (Note)

B. R. STANTON R. A. PICKRILL

Division of Marine and Freshwater Science Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Private Bag, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract Lake Hakapoua was cut off from the sea by a landslide in 1915. A survey of the lake in February 1987 found that the bottom water below 60 m was saline and apparently anoxic. This water has been isolated for some time and may be remnant sea water trapped in the lake at the time of the landslide.

Keywords fiords; salinity; oxygen depletion

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1988, Vol. 22 : 293-294 Crown copyright 1988Received 6 August 1987; accepted 11 November 1987

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