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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... Fossil seep carbonates . . . 168 7.3.1 Ancient deep - water fossil reefs , Algerian Sahara Kess - Kess formations , Morocco 169 170 7.4 7.5 Seamounts and carbonates 170 " Living fossil ". 7.3.2 Linn Mei , Allis , and Marthe , who provide ...
... fossil " structures ? . 172 7.5.1 Stromatolites and microbialites 172 7.5.2 Are they seep bioherms ? 173 7.6 Summary 177 8.2 8 Competing theories . 8.1 Introduction . 8.3 Reefs that didn't drown . A null hypothesis 179 179 180 181 8.3.1 ...
... fossil deep - water Devonian reef . . . The Sula Reef and the HRC reefs shown on a shaded digital terrain model . Interpreted image of a 2 - D seismic line running across the Sula Ridge flat - iron formation . . . 9550 60 61 4.20 An ...
... fossil reefs , Moroccan Sahara . 101 104 5.2 A general shaded relief map of the northeast Atlantic Ocean , Ireland , the British Isles , the North Sea , and parts of Norway and Denmark 105 5.3 The original image that proved the ...
... ( fossil ) Waulsortian mound in the Normandville field and sketch of a Waulsortian mound 159 164 166 7.3 A photograph of the remarkable fossil deep - water carbonate reefs or mounds located in the Ahnet sedimentary basin , Algerian Sahara ...
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 |