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Solar Lake is a stratified, hypersaline, heliothermal heated water body situated on the coast of Sinai of the Gulf of Aqaba. The lake is 140 × 70 m and its maximal depth is 5.5m. It is fed by seawater seeping through a 60 m wide terrestrial barrier which separates it from the sea. The lake is strongly stratified for a period of nine to eleven months per year (Cohen et al., 1977a,b). During this period a mesothermal profile develops with a maximum temperature of 65° measured at 2 m water depth. Previous papers have dealt with the limnological cycle of the lake (Cohen et al., 1977a), the distribution of photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic microorganisms and their activities in the water (Cohen et al., 1977b,c), sulfur transformations in the chemocline of Solar Lake (Jørgensen et al., 1979a), and the contribution of the cyanobacteria to the sulfur cycle in the water column (Padan and Cohen, 1980).
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Cohen, Y., Aizenshtat, Z., Stoler, A., Jørgensen, B.B. (1980). The Microbial Geochemistry of Solar Lake, Sinai. In: Biogeochemistry of Ancient and Modern Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-26582-6_18
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