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2 unusual facts about Canfield ocean


Canfield ocean

The term Strangelove ocean is a model name coined by a study published in 1985, which found a decrease in the δ13 C values of planktic skeletons following the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, causing a homogenous ocean in decades or centuries, visible in the boundary sediment layer as a manifestation of the elimination in the surface-to-bottom carbon isotope gradient in ocean waters, the halt of ocean primary production.

Peter Ward studies the effects of ocean hypoxia(anoxic) and sulfidic oceans and climate change.


Donald Canfield

The Canfield ocean, a sulfidic partially oxic ocean existing between the Archean and Ediacaran periods, takes its name from his seminal paper.


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