Giant carbonate mud mounds in the southern Rockall Trough

• Published in: Marine Geology
• Main Authors: Kenyon, N.H., Akhmetzhanov, A.M., Wheeler, A.J., Van Weering, T.C.E., De Haas, H., Ivanov, M.K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Rockall Trough; Rockall Bank; Porcupine Bank; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/102059/; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00680-1

Seismic profiles, sidescan sonar data, bottom photography and sampling proved for the first time that there are giant carbonate mounds (bioherms) in the Rockall Trough. The Pelagia Mounds, on the northern Porcupine Bank, are relatively isolated whereas most of the Logachev Mounds, on the southeast R...