Conditions required for oceanic anoxia/euxinia: Constraints from a one-dimensional ocean biogeochemical cycle model

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 304, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 270-279

  Ozaki, Kazumi ^a   Tajima, Shigeo ^a,b   Tajika, Eiichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Biogeochemical cycles; Euxinia; Oceanic anoxic events; Phosphorus cycle

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ANOXIC EVENTS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; BLACK SHALES; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLIMATE WARMING; EUXINIA; OCEANIC ANOXIC EVENT; OXYGEN SOLUBILITY; P-CYCLES; POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; RIVER INPUT; RIVERINE FLUX; SHALLOW WATERS; STEADY-STATE SIMULATIONS; SULFIDIC WATERS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EUTROPHICATION; FEEDBACK; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUBILITY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY;

ANOXIA; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EUTROPHICATION; EUXINIC ENVIRONMENT; PHANEROZOIC; PHOSPHORUS CYCLE; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 79952627101     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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