Uranium-series dating and growth characteristics of the deep-sea scleractinian coral: Enallopsammia rostrata from the Equatorial Pacific

• Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• Main Authors: Houlbreque, Fanny, McCulloch, Malcolm, Roark, Brendan, Guilderson, Tom, Meibom, Anders, Kimball, Justine, Mortimer, Graham, Cuif, Jean-Pierre, Dunbar, Robert
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Line Islands; Pacific; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/177160; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.01.017

The deep-sea coral, Enallopsammia rostrata, a member of the Dendrophylliidae family, is a major structure-forming species that creates massive dendroid colonies, up to 1 m wide and 0.5 m tall. Living colonies of E. rostrata have been collected using the PISCES submersibles from three locations from...