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lysocline

[′lī·sə‚klīn]
(oceanography)
The level or ocean depth at which the rate of solution of calcium carbonate increases significantly.
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dissolution-generated alkalinity above the chemical lysocline," Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, vol.
Understanding the Compositional Variability of the Major Components of Hydrothermal Plumes in the Okinawa Trough
Neither the CCD nor the lysocline seems to be associated with a particular water mass.
Response of Recent benthic foraminiferal assemblages to contrasting environments in Baffin Bay and the northern Labrador Sea, Northwest Atlantic
Carbonate accumulation rates at many sites appear to have been very high in the latter stages of the PETM: the lysocline (the depth in the ocean below which the rate of dissolution of calcite increases dramatically) was located even deeper than before the PETM, resulting in the sequestration of large amounts of carbon (e.g.
Geoscience of climate and energy 4. Rapid carbon injection and transient global warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
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