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ARTICLES RELATED TO Dead zone - Locations of dead zones | | | |  Dead zone - Locations of dead zones: Encyclopedia II - Dead zone - Locations of dead zonesIn the 1970s, marine dead zones were first noted in areas where intensive economic use stimulated "first-world" scientific scrutiny: in the U.S. East Coast's Chesapeake Bay, in Scandinavia's strait called the Kattegat, which is the mouth of the Baltic Sea and in other important Baltic Sea fishing grounds, in the Black Sea, (which may have been anoxic in its deepest levels for millennia, however) and in the northern Adriatic.
Currently the most notorious dead zone is a 20,000 square kilometer region in the Gulf of Mexico, where the Mis ...
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| | | | Dead zone - Locations of dead zones: Encyclopedia II - Dead zone - Causes of dead zones Aquatic and marine dead zones can be caused by the process of eutrophication, triggered by an excess of plant nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) from fertilizers, sewage, combustion emissions from vehicles, power generators, and factories. In a cascade of effects, the nutrients trigger a bloom of phytoplankton at the bottom of the marine food chain, allowing zooplankton to proliferate. As phytoplankton and zooplankton die and sink below the photic zone where photosynthesis can occur, a bloom of natural bacterial ...
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