Radiocarbon dating on cold-water corals and planktonic foraminifera, grain size analysis, stable oxygen isotopes, and XRF data of sediment cores from the Alboran Sea ...

• Main Authors: Fink, Hiske G, Wienberg, Claudia, De Pol-Holz, Ricardo, Wintersteller, Paul, Hebbeln, Dierk
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2013
• Subjects: Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM; Coral Ridge; Ricardo; Lophelia pertusa; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.819105; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.819105

Cold-water corals are common along the Moroccan continental margin off Melilla in the Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean Sea), where they colonise and largely cover mound and ridge structures. Radiocarbon ages of the reef-forming coral species Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata sampled from thos...