Past open ocean oxygen-deficient zones (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Past open ocean oxygen-deficient zones

Caption

Studies of sediment cores show that open ocean oxygen-deficient zones (in red) shrank during long warm periods in the past.

Credit

A. Auderset, MPI for Chemistry, produced with the "Ocean Data View" program using data from the "World Ocean Atlas (WOA18)".

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