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Science 15 April 1966:
Vol. 152. no. 3720, pp. 354 - 356
DOI: 10.1126/science.152.3720.354
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Density-Current Plumes

David T. Mason 1

1 Zoology Department, University of California, Davis 95616

Diurnal solar heating produces an unstable warm zone just off the bottom of the inshore regions of a salt lake. The warm water rises in plumes in which brine shrimp become entrapped through apparently negative photokinetic behavior. The plumes of concentrated shrimp resemble those composed of insects in air.

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