monimolimnion
(ˌmɒnɪməʊˈlɪmnɪən)
Pl. -limnia.
[a. G. monimolimnion (I. Findenegg 1935, in Internat. Rev. d. ges. Hydrobiol. u. Hydrographie XXXII. 377), f. Gr. µόνιµο-ς stable + -limnion, after epilimnion, hypolimnion.]
The lower, denser, non-circulating layer of a meromictic lake. Cf. mixolimnion.
| 1937 [see mixolimnion]. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. vii. 464 These lakes have never fully circulated in the ordinary way, since they developed large monimolimnia. 1968 [see mixolimnion]. |