Polymictic

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Polymictic lakes are holomictic lakes that are too shallow to develop thermal stratification; thus, their waters can mix from top to bottom throughout the ice-free period. Polymictic lakes can be divided into cold polymictic lakes (i.e., those that are ice-covered in winter), and warm polymictic lakes (i.e., polymictic lakes in regions where ice-cover does not develop in winter).^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Lewis, WM Jr, 1983. A revised classification of lakes based on mixing. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 1779-1787.

[edit] See also

• Amictic
• Holomictic
• Meromictic
• Monomictic
• Dimictic lake
• Thermocline

[edit] External links

"Circulation: annual patterns of dimictic lakes" at Encyclopædia Britannica Online