Description
Bowles Creek is a small creek that drains ponds fed by flows from the tongue of Canada Glacier, and enters Lake Fryxell on the west end of the south shore. The gradient is shallow and the channel is narrow (about 3 m across). The flow in Bowles Creek is well correlated with the flow in the adjacent Green Creek, which drains the same network of ponds. Stream length: 0.9 km.
Environmental data
Hydrological, biological, chemical, and physical property measurements have been made for a number of McMurdo Dry Valley streams and lakes.
See: LTER Data
Diatom taxa found in
Bowles Creek
- Achnanthes taylorensis
- Amphora oligotraphenta
- Craticula molestiformis
- Diadesmis contenta
- Diadesmis contenta var. parallela
- Diadesmis perpusilla
- Hantzschia abundans
- Hantzschia amphioxys
- Hantzschia amphioxys f. muelleri
- Hantzschia sp. #5
- Hantzschia subrupestris
- Luticola austroatlantica
- Luticola dolia
- Luticola gaussii
- Luticola laeta
- Luticola murrayi
- Luticola mutica
- Luticola muticopsis
- Luticola muticopsis fo. capitata
- Luticola muticopsis fo. evoluta
- Luticola muticopsis fo. reducta
- Luticola sp. #2
- Luticola sp. #3
- Marine diatom fragments
- Mayamaea atomus
- Mayamaea atomus var. #1
- Muelleria meridionalis
- Muelleria peraustralis
- Navicula cincta
- Navicula gregaria
- Navicula shackletoni
- Nitzschia westii
- Pinnularia borealis
- Pinnularia deltaica
- Psammothidium chlidanos
- Psammothidium germainii
- Stauroneis latistauros
