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Chakara: A Unique Environmental Phenomenon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

A. N. Balchand
Affiliation:
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Cochin, Cochin 682016, India.

Abstract

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Type
Short Communications: Reports, Comments, News, Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1981

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References

* In answer to our query the Author explained: ‘During upwelling, the thermocline and oxygen minimum layers are raised to subsurface levels. The presence of mud-banks enhances this phenomenon’.—Ed.