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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... Pockmark craters Why north of the Polar Circle ? Suspected origin of the Fugløy reef Deep - water bioherms at Nyegga 3.7.1 Significance of the tubeworm ix xiii xvii xxiii XXV 1 1 7 7 10 11 13 13 14 16 18 22 23 22203 24 29 3.8 3.9 Håkon ...
... 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 the Morvin field 76 4.4.6 Origin of Kristin and Morvin ...
... pockmark near the Fugløy reef . 22 21 21 3.9 A sketch illustrating how I suggest light hydrocarbons dissolved in porewater seep up along dipping sedimentary rock layers through the seafloor in the Haltenbanken . 22 3.10 3.11 A ...
... pockmark G11 at Nyegga . . 27 3.13 3.14 3.15 Pingo No. 1 , located inside complex pockmark G11 at Nyegga . The location of a pingo ( No. 2 ) beneath a carbonate rock overhang Arrow points at a pingo located between two large carbonate ...
... pockmark at Troll 93 4.50 These two large , white and red Paragorgia arborea ( gum - corals ) were found inside the Troll pockmark . . . 24 94 4.51 A large , apparently layered carbonate rock , a methane - derived authigenic carbonate ...
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 |