asphalt lake

ENVO:00000165 ·resolve ·TERRESTRIAL ·EXACT REVIEWED

A lake formed of a natural deposit of alphalt, a black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid composed of fossil hydrocarbons. — ENVO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Environmental > Terrestrial > Asphalt lakes 3 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	3	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

lake ENVO:00000020
terrestrial biome ENVO:00000446

Also called

Asphalt lakes — GOLD
basin — ENVO
tar pit — ENVO

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to ENVO:00000165 'asphalt lake' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the ENVO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Environmental > Terrestrial > Asphalt lakes (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.230c08eea2)

Provenance

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