Cold-water coral mounds peaks off on the northern Namibia shelf ...

An exceptionally large cold-water coral mound province (CMP) was recently discovered extending over 80 km along the Namibian shelf (offshore southwestern Africa) in water depths of 160–270 m. This hitherto unknown CMP comprises >2000 mounds with heights of up to 20 m and constitutes the largest C...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tamborrino, Leonardo, Hebbeln, Dierk
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2023
Subjects:
cold-water coral
coral mounds
Lophelia pertusa
Identification
Province
ELEVATION
LONGITUDE
LATITUDE
Depth, water, top/minimum
Depth, water, bottom/maximum
Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.956090
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.956090
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Summary:An exceptionally large cold-water coral mound province (CMP) was recently discovered extending over 80 km along the Namibian shelf (offshore southwestern Africa) in water depths of 160–270 m. This hitherto unknown CMP comprises >2000 mounds with heights of up to 20 m and constitutes the largest CMP known from the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Here, the position of the peaks of the Namibian coral mounds is reported. ...

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