Description
Green Creek, which is adjacent to Bowles Creek, has a similar gradient, but has a larger discharge. The channel is broad with low banks. The gauge on Green Creek is located in the mid-section of the stream and is a natural channel control site with minimal streambed disturbance. Stream length: 1.2 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
Green Creek
- Achnanthes taylorensis
- Amphora oligotraphenta
- Chamaepinnularia cymatopleura
- Craticula molestiformis
- Diadesmis contenta
- Diadesmis contenta var. parallela
- Diadesmis perpusilla
- Fallacia naumannii
- Fistulifera pelliculosa
- Hantzschia abundans
- Hantzschia amphioxys
- Hantzschia amphioxys f. muelleri
- Hantzschia sp. #5
- Hantzschia subrupestris
- Luticola austroatlantica
- Luticola cohnii var. #1
- 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
- Muelleria supra
- Navicula cincta
- Navicula shackletoni
- Nitzschia westii
- Pinnularia borealis
- Pinnularia deltaica
- Pinnularia quaternaria
- Psammothidium chlidanos
- Psammothidium germainii
- Stauroneis latistauros
- Stauronella constricta
Green Creek, Taylor Valley.
See: Overview maps
Aerial view of Green Creek (leftmost channel) and adjacent Bowles Creek. Both are fed by melt from the Canada Glacier and flow into Lake Fryxell. 0. Photo: Michael Gooseff.
Green Creek. Stream Team members walk along the bank. 1999. Photo: LTER Web site.
