The importance of the terrigenous fraction within a cold-water coral mound: A case study

• Published in: Marine Geology
• Main Authors: Pirlet, Hans, Colin, Christophe, Thierens, Mieke, Latruwe, Kris, Van Rooij, David, Foubert, Anneleen, Frank, Norbert, Blamart, Dominique, Huvenne, Veerle A.I., Swennen, Rudy, Vanhaecke, Frank, Henriet, Jean-Pierre
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Canada; Greenland; Porcupine Seabight; Iceland
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/287629/

In the nineties, cold-water coral mounds were discovered in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic, west of Ireland). A decade later, this discovery led to the drilling of the entire Challenger cold-water coral mound (Eastern slope, Porcupine Seabight) during IODP Expedition 307. As more than 50% of th...