Hypoxia and Medicine

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Summary: unless the Dead Zone reaches the very top of the water column In the rare cases when this happens the water does not have a different appearance it s merely devoid of life The location of mid summer hypoxic waters off the Louisiana coast can be predicted using data collected in prior years 1985 1999 Courtesy Nancy Rabalais Louisiana Universities

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