Sea eyes
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| Geographical location | Carinthia | |
| Drain | Arlingbach → Lavant | |
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| Coordinates | 46 ° 51 '30 " N , 14 ° 38' 58" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 1935 m above sea level A. | |
As sea eyes two small bodies of water are on the Saualpe in 1935 meters altitude in Carinthia called. These are very shallow waters that were formed by ice age processes.
Etymology and sagas
In the past, the population imagined that the bodies of water were connected to the sea. The delightful nature of the waters fired their imaginations and provided the breeding ground for legends . The term Meeraugen is also used for mountain lakes in the Carpathian Mountains , as well as in the singular as Meerauge for an ice age lake in the Bodental in Carinthia.
Great sea eye
The sea-eye has a surface of about 3800 m² and is on average between 20 and 30 cm deep. The deepest point is 50 cm. The sea-eye is fed in the west by two above-ground tributaries (spring outlets) with a total water flow of 0.1 to 0.2 l / s. To the east of the pool there is an above-ground drain.
Little sea eye
The sea-eye is only between 10 and 20 cm deep. It has no recognizable superficial tributaries and is silted up by reeds and water plants; it has only about a third of the water surface of the Great Eye of the Sea.
Limnological exploration
On July 31, 1986, the two sea eyes were examined together with the Gertrusk pond by scientists from the Limnological Institute in Carinthia and the results were published in Carinthia II . Relatively high total phosphorus levels of 23 and 51 mg / l were found. As a result of strong plant production, there was an oxygen oversaturation of approx. 50% and pH values of up to 9.5. The aluminum concentrations were noticeably high with up to 90 μg / l. The algae biomass was determined in the sea eye to be 1268 mg / m³. It consisted of 60% chlorophyceae , 36% cryptophyceae and only 4% diatoms .
source
- Gerhild Deisinger, Wolfgang Honsig-Erlenburg, Krista Kanz, Norbert Schulz, Kurt Traer: Limnological studies of three mountain ponds on the Saualpe (Carinthia, Austria). In: Carinthia II. 178-98, 1988, pp. 403-410 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang HONSIG-ERLENBURG, Gerhild DEISINGER, Krista KANZ, Norbert SCHULZ and Kurt TRAER: Limnological studies of three mountain ponds on the Saualpe (Carinthia, Austria) . In: Carinthia II . 178./198. Year, no. 2 . Klagenfurt 1988, p. 403-410 .