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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... shallow seismic interpretation The semi - floating platform at the Kristin field off mid - Norway 67 523 70 4.27 A small portion of the coral reef KA2 inside the pockmark KA2 at the Kristin field . . . . 71 4.28 An example , from HRC ...
... shallow seismic section shot across the East Flower Garden Bank . . . 148 149 6.7 6.8 " Fields of Floating Oil ” , GoM , a map constructed by Captain Soley , 1910 . A 25 m high mound located inside a depression on a seismic image from ...
... shallow hydrothermal system , located on a coral reef off Taketomi Island , Japan . . . 200 9.1 A.1 The Late Devonian Kess - Kess fossil carbonate mud mounds , which resemble the currently live Porcupine Basin giant mud mounds . A ...
... shallow - water formations , which represent dangers to navigation . Even though the deep - water coral accumulations do not represent dangerous " reefs " , as such , it has become a habit calling them " reefs " . A viable , and perhaps ...
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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 |