nutricline

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noun

A zone within which nutrient levels decline rapidly with depth of water

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Meanings

nounnutricline (plural nutriclines)

plural nutriclines

  1. A zone within which nutrient levels decline rapidly with depth of water

    We suggest that during the onset of the YD and at least until 12.6 ka BP, the MMF experienced lateral advection of nutrient and oxygen rich LIW that was accompanied by a shoaling of the nutricline.

    2015 October 9, “Microfossils, a Key to Unravel Cold-Water Carbonate Mound Evolution through Time: Evidence from the Eastern Alboran Sea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From nutrient and cline.

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Chicago

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