Which effect results when upwelling brings nutrient-rich water to surface regions with stratification?

💡 Explanation

When upwelling delivers nutrients to stratified surface waters, algal blooms can occur because the nutrients fuel rapid phytoplankton growth, especially under stable conditions, sometimes resulting in harmful, toxic blooms. Therefore algal bloom proliferation is possible, rather than acidification, destabilization, or mixing which require different chemical or physical energy drivers.

• Which crustal deformation occurs due to hydrated mineral formation during oceanic plate subduction?
• Which process primarily maintains upwelling along the western coasts of continents?
• Which landform evolves when repetitive thaw-freeze cycles drive solifluction of saturated sediment on slopes?
• Which outcome occurs when a subducting slab stagnates mid-mantle?
• Which risk increases when differential erosion affects coastlines?
• Which deflection occurs on ocean currents due to the Coriolis effect closer to the Earth's equator?