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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]
References
- ^ Lewis, William M., Jr. (1983). "A revised classification of lakes based on mixing". Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 40 (10): 1779–1787. http://cires.colorado.edu/limnology/pubs/pdfs/Pub058.pdf.
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