Cecil,
Sure, it could. But, with that black water and floating algae mixed with dead plankton ringing the surface, it would take more than just thermal mixing to kill all that greenery. A turnover wouldn't have killed the peripheral plant life.
Oh I wasn't discounting that at all. Just thought since a turn over was not mentioned it could have been one of those
all of the above situations. Ewest even added another one that could have been added to all of the above.
Didn't someone here once say that fish kills could be due to more than one factor at once? Was that you Bob?