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    Variations in Denitrification and Ventilation Within the Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimum Zone During the Holocene

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    2018
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    Kessarkar, P.M.
    Naqvi, S.W.A.
    Thamban, M.
    Fernandes, L.L.
    Siebert, C.
    Rao, V.P.
    Kawahata, H.
    Ittekkot, V.
    Frank, M.
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    The continental slope of India is exposed to an intense perennial oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) supporting pelagic denitrification. Sediments that are presently in contact with the lower boundary of the denitrification zone indicate marked changes in the intermediate and bottom waters ventilation of OMZ during the past 9,500 years. The 15N of sediment suggests that the OMZ waters were less ventilated during the early Holocene (between 9.5 and 8.5 ka BP) resulting in intensified denitrifying conditions with an average 15N value of 7.8‰, while at the same time stable Mo isotope composition (average -98Mo of -0.02‰) indicates that the bottom waters that were in contact with the sediments were better oxygenated. By the mid-Holocene OMZ became more oxygenated suppressing denitrification (average -15N of 6.2‰), while bottom waters gradually became less oxygenated (average -98Mo of 1.7‰). The mid-Holocene reduction in denitrification coincided with a global decrease in atmospheric N2O as inferred from ice core records, which is consistent with a decreased contribution from the Arabian Sea. Since ~5.5 ka BP OMZ waters have again been undergoing progressive deoxygenation accompanied by increasing denitrification.
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    http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/7995
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