Cold-water coral carbonate mounds as unique palaeo-archives: the Plio-Pleistocene Challenger Mound record (NE Atlantic)

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Thierens, M., Browning, E., Pirlet, H., Loutre, M.-F., Dorschel, B., Huvenne, V.A.I., Titschack, J., Colin, C., Foubert, A., Wheeler, A.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Porcupine Seabight; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503112/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.006

Through the interplay of a stabilising cold-water coral framework and a dynamic sedimentary environment, cold-water coral carbonate mounds create distinctive centres of bio-geological accumulation in often complex (continental margin) settings. The IODP Expedition 307 drilling of the Challenger Moun...