Why is Bear Lake so blue? And other commonly asked questions

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bear Lake

Gravity map and data of the eastern half of the Big Bear Lake, 100,000 scale quadrangle, California and analysis of the depths of several basins

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carter Roberts ◽  
Robert Jachens ◽  
Allan Katzenstein ◽  
Gregory Smith ◽  
Russell Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Bear Lake ◽  
Gravity Map ◽  
Eastern Half

Paleoenvironments of Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho, and its catchment

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph G. Rosenbaum ◽  
Darrell S. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Bear Lake

scholarly journals Carbon Fixation Trends in Eleven of the World’s Largest Lakes: 2003–2018

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 3500
Author(s):  
Michael Sayers ◽  
Karl Bosse ◽  
Gary Fahnenstiel ◽  
Robert Shuchman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Primary Production ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing ◽  
Carbon Fixation ◽  
African Great Lakes ◽  
Wind Speeds ◽  
Bear Lake ◽  
Great Slave Lake ◽  
Significant Production

Large freshwater lakes provide immense value to the surrounding populations, yet there is limited understanding of how these lakes will respond to climate change and other factors. This study uses satellite remote sensing to estimate annual, lake-wide primary production in 11 of the world’s largest lakes from 2003–2018. These lakes include the five Laurentian Great Lakes, the three African Great Lakes, Lake Baikal, and Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes. Mean annual production in these lakes ranged from under 200 mgC/m2/day to over 1100 mgC/m2/day, and the lakes were placed into one of three distinct groups (oligotrophic, mesotrophic, or eutrophic) based on their level of production. The analysis revealed only three lakes with significant production trends over the study period, with increases in Great Bear Lake (24% increase over the study period) and Great Slave Lake (27%) and a decline in Lake Tanganyika (−16%). These changes appear to be related to climate change, including increasing temperatures and solar radiation and decreasing wind speeds. This study is the first to use consistent methodology to study primary production in the world’s largest lakes, allowing for these novel between-lake comparisons and assessment of inter-annual trends.

U–Pb ages and tectonic significance of late Archean alkalic magmatism and nonmarine sedimentation: Timiskaming Group, southern Abitibi belt, Ontario

1991 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Corfu ◽  
S. L. Jackson ◽  
R. H. Sutcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Greenstone Belt ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Detrital Zircons ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Lake Area ◽  
Quartz Porphyry ◽  
Bear Lake ◽  
Lake Formation ◽  
Dominant Period

The paper presents U–Pb ages for zircons of the calc-alkalic to alkalic igneous suite and associated alluvial–fluvial sedimentary rocks of the Timiskaming Group in the late Archean Abitibi greenstone belt, Superior Province. The Timiskaming Group rests unconformably on pre-2700 Ma komatiitic to calc-alkalic volcanic sequences and is the expression of the latest stages of magmatism and tectonism that shaped the greenstone belt. An age of 2685 ± 3 Ma for the Bidgood quartz porphyry, an age of about 2685–2682 Ma for a quartz–feldspar porphyry clast in a conglomerate, and ages ranging from 2686 to 2680 Ma for detrital zircons in sandstones appear to reflect an early stage in the development of the Timiskaming Group. The youngest detrital zircons in each of three sandstones at Timmins, Kirkland Lake, and south of Larder Lake define maximum ages of sedimentation at about 2679 Ma; the latter sandstone is cut by a porphyry dyke dated by titanite at [Formula: see text], identical to the 2677 ± 2 Ma age for a volcanic agglomerate of the Bear Lake Formation north of Larder Lake. Similar ages have previously been reported for syenitic to granitic plutons of the region. The dominant period of Timiskaming sedimentation and magmatism was thus 2680–2677 Ma. Xenocrystic zircons found in a porphyry and a lamprophyre dyke have ages of 2750–2720 Ma, which correspond to the ages of the oldest units in the belt, predating the volumetrically dominant ca. 2700 Ma greenstone sequences. The presence of these xenocrysts and the onlapping of the Timiskaming Group on all earlier lithotectonic units of the southern Abitibi belt support the concept that the 2700 Ma ensimatic sequences were thrust onto older assemblages during a phase of compression that culminated with the generation of tonalite and granodiorite at about 2695–2688 Ma. Published geochemical data for the Timiskaming igneous suite, notably the enrichments in large-ion lithophile elements and light rare-earth elements and the relative depletion of Nb, Ta, and Ti compare with the characteristics of suites at modern convergent settings such as the Eolian and the Banda arcs and are consistent with generation of the melts from deep metasomatized mantle in the final stages of, or after cessation of, subduction. Late- and post-Timiskaming compression caused north-directed thrusting and folding. Turbiditic sedimentary units of the Larder Lake area which locally structurally overly the alluvial–fluvial sequence and were earlier thought to be part of the Timiskaming Group, appear to be older "flyschoid" sequences, possibly correlative with sedimentary rocks deposited in the Porcupine syncline at Timmins between 2700 and 2690 Ma.

Pseudoditrichum mirabile gen. et sp. nov. (Musci: Pseudoditrichaceae fam. nov.), a unique moss from Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories

1974 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Campbell Steere ◽  
Zennoske Iwatsuki
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Arctic Circle ◽  
New Family ◽  
Bear Lake ◽  
Evolutionary Level

The name Pseudoditrichum mirabile Steere et Iwatsuki is proposed for a minute moss with leafy stem 1-3 mm high and seta 6 mm long; it was collected on calcareous silt near the Sloan River, Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, only a few miles south of the Arctic Circle. The gametophytic characters agree well with those of the Ditrichaceae, a relatively primitive family, but the peristome is clearly double, with the inner and outer teeth opposite, which thereby indicates a much more advanced phylogenetic position, perhaps at the evolutionary level of the Funariaceae. As the combination of gametophytic and sporophytic characteristics exhibited by this moss does not occur in any existing family of mosses, it is therefore deemed necessary to create the new family Pseudoditrichaceae for the new genus and species described here.

scholarly journals Theoretical study of ice cover phenology at large freshwater lakes based on SMOS MIRAS data

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2727-2740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasiliy Tikhonov ◽  
Ilya Khvostov ◽  
Andrey Romanov ◽  
Evgeniy Sharkov
Keyword(s):  
Brightness Temperature ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Ice Cover ◽  
Freshwater Lakes ◽  
Ice Melt ◽  
Bear Lake ◽  
Ocean Salinity ◽  
Satellite Microwave ◽  
Transportation Routes ◽  
Temperature Time

Abstract. The paper presents a theoretical analysis of seasonal brightness temperature variations at a number of large freshwater lakes: Baikal, Ladoga, Great Bear Lake (GBL), Great Slave Lake (GSL), and Huron, retrieved from Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis (MIRAS) data (1.4 GHz) of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite. The analysis was performed using the model of microwave radiation of plane layered heterogeneous nonisothermal medium. The input parameters for the model were real regional climatological characteristics and glaciological parameters of ice cover of the study lakes. Three distinct seasonal brightness temperature time regions corresponding to different phenological phases of the lake surfaces: complete ice cover, ice melt and deterioration, and open water were revealed. The paper demonstrates the possibility to determine the beginning of ice cover deterioration from satellite microwave radiometry data. The obtained results can be useful for setting the operating terms of winter crossings and roads on ice, as with the beginning of ice deterioration, these transportation routes across water bodies (rivers, lakes, water reservoirs) become insecure and cannot be used any more.

Variability in ice phenology on Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, from SeaWinds/QuikSCAT: 2000–2006

2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 816-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen E.L. Howell ◽  
Laura C. Brown ◽  
Kyung-Kuk Kang ◽  
Claude R. Duguay
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Bear Lake ◽  
Great Slave Lake ◽  
Ice Phenology
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