Age analysis on fragments on Lophelia pertusa from the Darwin Mounds situated off the north west coast of Scotland, supplement to: Victorero, Lissette; Blamart, Dominique; Pons-Branchu, Edwige; Mavrogordato, Mark N; Huvenne, Veerle A I (2016): Reconstruction of the formation history of the Darwin Mounds, N Rockall Trough: How the dynamics of a sandy contourite affected cold-water coral growth. Marine Geology, 378, 186-195

• Main Authors: Victorero, Lissette, Blamart, Dominique, Pons-Branchu, Edwige, Mavrogordato, Mark N, Huvenne, Veerle A I
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2017
• Subjects: Rockall Trough; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.871618; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.871618

Cold-water coral mounds, formed through a feed-back process of cold-water coral growth and sediment baffling, have been studied all along the NE Atlantic continental margin. However, major questions remain concerning their formation history, especially their initiation and early development in relat...