Round Lake (New York)

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Round Lake is the smaller of the two lakes in Green Lakes State Park just east of Syracuse in Onondaga County, New York. (Green Lake is the larger one.) Both are meromictic lakes, which means that there is no autumn and spring mixing of surface and bottom waters. Such lakes have a high potential for evidence of ancient plant and animal life. This lake is incredibly deep (180 feet) given it's small size (38 acres), and because of this, and relative protection from the wind, the water layers in this lake do not mix or turn over.