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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... Ridge occurrences Off Nova Scotia 153 153 6.1.7 Orphan Knoll , off Newfoundland 154 6.1.8 The Mid - Atlantic Ridge 155 6.2 The eastern Atlantic 156 6.2.1 Small mounds off Congo 156 6.3 The Mediterranean Sea 157 6.4 The Pacific Ocean 158 ...
... Ridge reefs 193 8.6.2 Case 2 : the Træna Deep reefs 195 8.6.3 Case 3 : other linear reefs 198 8.7 Reefs associated with local depressions 8.7.1 Moats and other depressions 198 198 8.8 New support for the hydraulic model 199 8.9 ...
... ridge , at 45 m water depth , in the Trondheimsfjord , about 15 km north of the city of Trondheim , Norway . It is a good example of a lush Norwegian Lophelia reef . 0.1 1.1 The " crown " of a Lophelia reef off mid - Norway , at a water ...
... ridge 42 4.3 Photograph of resting Sebastes sp . 43 4.4 Bright - spots ( black , acoustically highly reflective horizontal bands in the lower image ) caused by gas accumulations . 45 4.5 This is how the haystacks appeared on sidescan ...
... Ridge ) acting as a dam . . 125 126 131 133 5.19 These two images show perspective views of the topography of the Pen Duick mud volcano and carbonate mound province , off Morocco .. 134 5.20 A 2 - D high - resolution seismic section ...
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 |