03-27-2008, 04:06 AM
I've never been there, but that sounds like a good explanation. It is actually pretty common for oxygen depleated areas to happen. In the ocean there are big areas that are depleated of oxygen because of increased nutrient loads, which cause algal blooms, and then when the nutrients run out, the algae is decomposed by microbes etc. that use up all of the oxygen. There is a persistant good example of this off shore near the mouth of the Mississippi.
The same thing can happen in fresh water. So with increased decomposition, and microbial respiration, combined with the long period of ice covering it, there would have been no new oxygen diffusing into the system. They very possibly could have simply ran our of oxygen at Treasureton.
Again, I'm not familiar with the area, but it is certainly possible, and whatever the cause, very
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The same thing can happen in fresh water. So with increased decomposition, and microbial respiration, combined with the long period of ice covering it, there would have been no new oxygen diffusing into the system. They very possibly could have simply ran our of oxygen at Treasureton.
Again, I'm not familiar with the area, but it is certainly possible, and whatever the cause, very
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