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Ace Lake (Fig. 1) is a permanently stratified lake, 23 m in depth (Fig. 2), protected from wind driven mixing for at least 10 months of the year by ice-cover and supporting thick mats of benthic cyanobacteria, planktonic communities of algae, and a copepod crustacean. Evidence indicates that the lake had a marine origin and has undergone a complex evolution involving evaporation, replenishment with local freshwater and the loss of 76% of the original seawater sulfur content by sulfate reduction (Burton and Barker, 1979).
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Burton, H.R. (1980). Methane in a Saline Antarctic Lake. In: Biogeochemistry of Ancient and Modern Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-26582-6_25
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