Electrolytes in Norwegian lakes

Abstract

STROM [17] treated the then available data for x18 and pH in Norwegian lakes (51 lakes) to ascertain how far they showed a regional distribution. Since then a considerable amount of additional information on the regiona! limnology of Norway has amassed. Therefore, the data of specific conductivity from 206 lakes will be treated in the present paper. These data have been collected mainly by Prof. KAARE STI~OM and by his students, and a great number of the lakes have been the subject of annual investigations. The investigated lakes are distributed over practically the whole country, and they should therefore found a good basis for a regional study.

Some physical and chemical properties of lakes in north-eastern Norway

“…This is in good accordance with conductivity typical for water in lakes on archean rocks in Norway, as described by KJENSMO [18]. Thirty-seven of fifty lakes on these geological complexes had specific conductivity values lower than 36.…”

“…the ground to lakes below the marine limit may be the washing out of salts in marine deposits (GORHAM [6], KJENSMO [18], 0HLE [24]). …”

The primary production and its influence on the meromictic stability in lake svinsjøen

“…The mixolimnetic water was, however, poor in oxygen; the saturation figure at 1 m depth was only 43. As must be expected from the above geological composition of the area, the content of electrolytes was fairly high [14,24]. The monimolimnetic water was especially rich in electrolytes.…”

Chemistry of small Norwegian lakes, with special reference to acid precipitation 1

“…The CO, produced is stripped with He gas and measured by gas chromatography. Kjensmo (1966) showed that the specific conductancc levels in 206 Norwegian lakes could be accounted for primarily on the basis of bedrock geology. Norway was glaciated during the Pleistocene and modern soils have developed during the past 10,000 years primarily on glacial deposits.…”