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 cf. oligotraphenta
- Chamaepinnularia aliena
- Chamaepinnularia cymatopleura
- Chamaepinnularia cymatopleura var. #3
- Chamaepinnularia deltaica
- Chamaepinnularia quaternaria
- Craspedostauros laevissiumus
- Craticula molestiformis
- Fistulifera pelliculosa
- Hantzschia abundans
- Hantzschia amphioxys
- Hantzschia amphioxys f. muelleri
- Hantzschia elongata
- Hantzschia hyperaustralis
- Humidophila arcuata
- Humidophila arcuata var. parallela
- Humidophila australis
- Luticola austroatlantica
- Luticola bradyi
- Luticola dolia
- Luticola elegans
- Luticola gaussii
- Luticola laeta
- Luticola mcknightiae
- Luticola murrayi
- Luticola mutica
- Luticola muticopsis
- Luticola permuticopsis
- Luticola sp. #2
- Luticola sp. #3
- Luticola spainiae
- Luticola transantarctica
- Marine diatom fragments
- Mayamaea atomus
- Mayamaea atomus fo. permitis
- Mayamaea atomus var. #1
- Melosira charcotii
- Microcostatus naumannii
- Muelleria cryoconicola
- Muelleria meridionalis
- Muelleria peraustralis
- Muelleria supra
- Navicula gregaria
- Navicula seibigiana
- Navicula shackletoni
- Nitzschia australocommutata
- Nitzschia westiorum
- Pinnularia borealis
- Psammothidium germainii
- Psammothidium papilio
- Sabbea adminensis
- Stauroneis latistauros
