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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... Seep - associated corals and sponges over a leaky field 79 4.5 4.5.1 Other reef occurrences off mid - Norway and northern Norway Reefs in Breisunddjupet , near Ålesund 80 80 4.5.2 4.5.3 4.6 4.6.1 The Floholman reefs , with associated ...
... seep , could drilling resolve the issue ? The Rockall Trough margin mounds 114 120 5.2.4 Lophelia within the deep ... seeping fluids off Ireland 127 127 5.2.7 Serpentinisation , the most important geobiological pro- cess ? 128 5.3 Gulf ...
... 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 Water - related factors . 181 8.4 A hydrodynamical case study 184 8.5 External or ...
... 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 bathymetric map , showing the locations of.
... Seep Last Glacial Maximum Mid Atlantic Ridge Multi Beam Echosounder Magma Chamber Methane Derived Authigenic Carbonate Mekenes Mud Volcano Mediterranean Outflow Water Million Years Before Present MMV MOW mybp NADW NGU North Atlantic ...
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 |