Description
Crescent Stream drains Crescent Glacier in the Kukri Hills. It is gauged throughout the austral summer at the F8 gauge, located about 150 meters above the 1999 Lake Fryxell lake level. Stream length: 5.6 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
Crescent Stream
- Achnanthes taylorensis
- Chamaepinnularia deltaica
- Hantzschia abundans
- Hantzschia amphioxys
- Hantzschia amphioxys f. muelleri
- Hantzschia hyperaustralis
- Humidophila arcuata
- Humidophila arcuata var. parallela
- Luticola austroatlantica
- Luticola dolia
- Luticola elegans
- Luticola gaussii
- Luticola laeta
- Luticola mcknightiae
- Luticola murrayi
- Luticola mutica
- Luticola muticopsis
- Luticola permuticopsis
- Marine diatom fragments
- Mayamaea atomus
- Mayamaea atomus var. #1
- Muelleria meridionalis
- Muelleria peraustralis
- Navicula seibigiana
- Navicula shackletoni
- Nitzschia australocommutata
- Nitzschia westiorum
- Stauroneis latistauros
