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 ... giant carbonate mounds . vi Contents.
Unique Biodiversity Hot-Spots Martin Hovland. 5 North Atlantic coral reefs and giant carbonate 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 Seep or non - seep , could ...
... carbonate crusts 4.42 Terrain map from Hola . 4.43 4.44 The location of Malangsreef . 4.45 Echosounder data from ... giant carbonate mounds off Ireland . . . . 108 5.4 The remarkably similar 2 - D seismic image of a live , giant ...
... carbonate mounds 112 5.9 The resulting geo - profile over the Challenger Mound constructed after the preliminary ... giant carbonate mounds on the Rockall Bank . Detailed interpretation of the area of Darwin Mounds . 119 121 124 5.15 A ...
... giant carbonate mounds . 180 8.2 A fine perspective digital terrain model of the Belgica Mounds 182 8.3 Map from the Porcupine Seabight showing the locations of the three groups of mounds : Magellan , Hovland , and Belgica 185 8.4 8.5 A ...
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 |