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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... Sula 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 42 4.3 Photograph of resting Sebastes sp . 43 4.4 Bright - spots ( black , acoustically highly reflective ... Sula Reef and the HRC reefs shown on a shaded digital terrain model . Interpreted image of a 2 - D seismic line running across ...
... Sula Ridge . 194 8.9 Same as previous figure , but now only showing the lineations discussed in Figure 8.8 . . . . . 195 8.10 Relief map of the area between HR and SR 196 8.11 On this map over the general Træna Bank area , there are no ...
... Ridge Multi Beam Echosounder Magma Chamber Methane Derived Authigenic ... Sula Reef Towed Ocean Bottom Instrument TOBI Rockall Irish Margin Training ... Ridge West Flower Garden Bank Years Before Present 1 Introduction Even if the oceans ...
... Sula Ridge in 1998 and)was kept alive in the aquarium, Bergen, Norway for about 3 years (photo courtesy of P. B. Mortensen). Scale: the polyp on the left is about 1 cm across. In the tropics , corals have a special way of. ] Sec. 2.1 ...
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 |