Tests on the water showed that it was almost saturated with gas: Sigurdsson and his colleagues concluded that the deaths were a result of a limnic eruption, also known as lake overturn or lake explosion. |
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The Greek island of Santorini, he says, erupted at the same time, which had strange, seemingly supernatural effects on the Nile delta, where a related limnic eruption took place. |
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Few organisms are adapted to survive in brackish water conditions and the result is an impoverished ecosystem with a limited number of species either of marine of limnic origin. |
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Occurrence of limnic micro-crustaceans in relation to temperature and oxygen. |
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Associated diagnostic materials include limnic material and fluvic material. |
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Core 2, situated some distance from the quarry, revealed 38m of sedimentary infill underlain by limnic limestones, probably of Neogene age. |
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Visual pigments of Baltic Sea fishes of marine and limnic origin. |
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Kennet Lundin, senior curator of marine and limnic invertebrates. |
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