On August 15, 1984, the lake exploded in a limnic eruption, which resulted in the release of a large amount of carbon dioxide that killed 37 people.
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The caldera itself is not subjected to hydrothermal activity, but large subaqueous CO 2 emissions and local legends of the killing power of the lake indicate a danger of limnic eruptions.
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Along with Lake Nyos and Lake Kivu, Lake Monoun is one of only three lakes in the world known to have high concentrations of gas dissolved deep below the surface, which can result in a limnic eruption.
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Scientists have recently determined, from investigations into the mass casualties in the 1980s at Lake Monoun and Lake Nyos, that although limnic eruptions can be indirectly related to volcanic eruptions, they are actually separate types of disaster events.
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In the documentary, the plagues that ravaged Egypt in the Bible are explained as having resulted from that eruption and a related limnic eruption in the Nile Delta, similar to what occurred in the 1980s at Lake Nyos in Cameroon.
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However, on August 21, 1986, a limnic eruption occurred at Lake Nyos, triggering the sudden release of about 100, 000 300, 000 tons ( some sources state as much as 1.6 million tons ) of.
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The "'Grapsoidea "'are a superfamily of crabs; they are well known and contain many taxa which are terrestrial ( land-living ), semiterrestrial ( taking to the sea only for reproduction ), or limnic ( living in fresh water ).
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At any rate and their evolutionary relationships nonwithstanding, most bird taxa that survived the mass extinction seem to have been living in environments where they could utilize both terrestrial as well as marine or limnic food resources ( the ancestors of the Galliformes probably being the one noteworthy exception ).
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The "'Lake Nyos disaster "'occurred on 21 August 1986, when a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos, in northwestern Cameroon, produced a large cloud of carbon dioxide ( ), which descended onto nearby villages, killing 1, 700 people and 3, 500 livestock.
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Limnic sediments outside one such cirque glacier have been cored and dated, proving that the glacier did not exist at 12, 300 11, 000 B . P ., and that it was formed and disappeared in the time interval 11, 000 10, 000 B . P . ( Younger Dryas ).
