The Porcupine Bank Canyon coral mounds: oceanographic and topographic steering of deep-water carbonate mound development and associated phosphatic deposition

• Published in: Geo-Marine Letters
• Main Authors: Mazzini, A., Akhmetzhanov, A., Monteys, X., Ivanov, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Porcupine Bank; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/440760/

The head of a canyon system extending along the western Porcupine Bank (west of Ireland) and which accommodates a large field of giant carbonate mounds was investigated during two cruises (INSS 2000 and TTR-13). Multibeam and sidescan sonar data (600–1,150 m water depth) suggest that the pre-existin...