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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.

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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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