Deep-water Coral Reefs: Unique Biodiversity Hot-SpotsDeep-water coral reefs are found along large sections of the outer continental shelves and slopes of Europe, from North Cape to the Gulf of Cadiz, and because they also occur along the Atlantic seaboard of USA, the Gulf of Mexico, off Brazil, in the Mediterranean, and off New Zealand, they are currently being targeted by international groups of marine scientists. They have become popular and opportune deep-water research targets because they offer exciting frontier exploration, combined with a whole plethora of modern scientific methods, such as deep-sea drilling, sampling, remote control surveying and documentation. Furthermore they represent timely opportunities for further developments within the application of geochemistry, stable isotope research, bacterial sciences, including DNA-sequestering, and medical research (search for bioactive compounds). The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) has arranged a deep-sea scientific drilling campaign on giant carbonate banks off Ireland. Because the reefs currently defy traditional marine-ecological theories, they represent future research opportunities and will enjoy scientific scrutiny for many years to come. |
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... Basin reefs , off Brazil The Gulf of Mexico ( GoM ) 142 144 6.1.3 Deep - water corals off Belize 147 6.1.4 The Florida Straits . . . 150 6.1.5 6.1.6 The Blake Ridge occurrences Off Nova Scotia 153 153 6.1.7 Orphan Knoll , off ...
... Basin Deep - Sea Coral Assessment Group of Petrobras , Brazil , for sharing information from dredging , coring , and geophysical imaging from offshore Brazil . In StatoilHydro , I wish to thank some of my colleagues who have helped both ...
... basin , located upstream relative to the Fugløy reef . 19 888 20 3.7 Methane gas bubbles emitting from the seafloor at Tommeliten , at 70 m water depth in the North Sea .. 3.8 A large boulder located inside a pockmark near the Fugløy ...
... . . . 108 5.4 The remarkably similar 2 - D seismic image of a live , giant carbonate mound from the Vulcan Sub - Basin , off northwest Australia . 108 5.5 A high - resolution seismic image across the carbonate Figures xix.
... Basin , in the south , showing various types of coral reefs and carbonate mounds 112 5.9 The resulting geo - profile ... Basins off Brazil . . . . . A sidescan sonar record showing a surfacing fault scarp with coral reef overgrowth in ...
Contents
Introduction | 13 |
1 | 39 |
5 | 80 |
6 | 89 |
5 | 103 |
3 | 129 |
6 | 140 |
7 | 163 |
5 | 186 |
13 | 198 |
9 | 202 |
Corals inside a pockmark Troll field | 208 |
An unintended extinction? | 210 |
Conclusions | 216 |
14 | 230 |
B Epilogue | 232 |