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World’s largest ocean ‘dead zone’ was well oxygenated during past warm period

World’s largest ocean ‘dead zone’ was well oxygenated during past warm period

Nature, Published online: 28 June 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02004-x

The eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, which today is a major oxygen-deficient zone, or ‘dead zone’, was well oxygenated during the Miocene warm period about 16 million years ago. This finding supports model simulations suggesting that modern oxygen loss from the ocean might eventually reverse.

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