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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... hydrocarbon fields 4.4.1 Pockmark reefs at the Kristin field The " bio - expectations " for DWCRS Some relevant emerging results Sponge - associated bacteria 57 62 64 68 69 69 71 76 4.4.5 Silted reefs at ... carbonate mounds . vi Contents.
... mounds . Introduction .. 5.1 5.2 The Atlantic margin 103 • 103 104 5.2.1 Porcupine Seabight Mounds 106 5.2.2 5.2.3 ... Carbonate mounds off Mauritania 137 5.4 Summary 139 6 Other deep - water coral reefs , worldwide 141 6.1 Introduction ...
... carbonate mound structures together in this way. Therefore, the text is not ... mounds, providing insights into the physical processes, and inspire and ... mounds that in my view are best described in the literature I am most familiar ...
... carbonate crusts 4.42 Terrain map from Hola . 4.43 4.44 The location of Malangsreef . 4.45 Echosounder data from ... mounds off Ireland . . . . 108 5.4 The remarkably similar 2 - D seismic image of a live , giant carbonate mound from the ...
... carbonate mounds 112 5.9 The resulting geo - profile over the Challenger Mound constructed after the preliminary data from IODP Drilling Expedition 307 . 116 5.10 This figure shows clearly how unique the location of Belgica Mounds is 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 |