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Injection events in ocean history

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The reconnection, with the world ocean, of temporarily isolated ocean basins results in injection either of hyper-saline waters favouring abyssal stratification and stagnation, or of brackish Waters from high latitudes leading to a low salinity surface layer. Mass extinctions and sudden climatic change are closely associated with Arctic injection.

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