Massive emissions of toxic gas in the Atlantic

Scarla J. Weeks (), Bronwen Currie and Andrew Bakun
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Scarla J. Weeks: Ocean Space Ltd
Bronwen Currie: National Marine Research and Information Center
Andrew Bakun: IRD, IDYLE Project, University of Cape Town

Nature, 2002, vol. 415, issue 6871, 493-494

Abstract: Abstract Recurrent eruptions of toxic hydrogen sulphide gas in the waters along the Namibian coast off southwestern Africa have been considered to be local features with only limited ecosystem-scale consequences. But satellite remote sensing has revealed that these naturally occurring events are much more extensive and longer-lasting than previously suspected, and that the resultant hypoxia may last for much longer. The effects on the marine ecology and valuable coastal fisheries of this region are likely to be important.

Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1038/415493b

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