Meanings
- uncountableA circumstance where a body of water does not fully mix and circulate, causing stratification.
Meromictic lakes are the result of meromixis, ...
2024 February 17, Wikipedia contributors, “Chemocline”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation2 more examples
On the other hand, at least in a really deep tropical lake it is supposed that once thermal stratifiction is established it will be so quickly stabilized by chemical products of the lake's metabolism that meromixis will ordinarily ensue.
1866, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume 39, number 3, page 313The crenogenic type of meromixis is characterised by a chemocline which lies at such a depth that as much salt water is mixed from its surface in unit time as enters the monimolimmion at that time.
1937, Coe and Allen, “Growth of Sedentary Marine Organisms”, in Collected Papers - Osborn Zoological Society, volume 19, page 125
Origin
Back-formation from meromictic.
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