Acceleration of ocean denitrification during deglaciation documented
Monday, June 3, 2013 - 11:30
in Earth & Climate
As ice sheets melted during the deglaciation of the last ice age and global oceans warmed, oceanic oxygen levels decreased and "denitrification" accelerated by 30 to 120 percent, a new international study shows, creating oxygen-poor marine regions and throwing the oceanic nitrogen cycle off balance.