Sediments Tell the History of Eutrophication and Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

We examined a suite of paleoindicators in ²¹⁰pb-dated sediment cores to determine the historical course of primary production, eutrophication, and oxygen stress in the coastal ocean adjacent to the plumes of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers. The assumption that hypoxia is a natural feature of...

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Bays
Brackish
Diatoms
Eutrophication
Freshwater
Gulf of Mexico
Gulfs
Hypoxia
Marine
microfossils
Mississippi River
Nitrogen
nutrients
Oxygen
paleoindicators
Phytoplankton
River deltas
Sediments
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