The oxygen minimum layer is found
A) in the ocean trenches.
B) mid-ocean.
C) just below the sunlit surface.
D) at the surface.
E) just above the abyssal plain.

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The oxygen minimum layer is typically found just below the sunlit surface of the ocean, where oxygen consumption by organisms and microbial processes outpaces the supply of oxygen from the surface waters and photosynthesis.

The Oxygen Minimum Layer Is Found