Carbonate budget of a cold-water coral carbonate mound: Propeller Mound, Porcupine Seabight

• Published in: International Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Dorschel, Boris, Hebbeln, Dierk, Rüggeberg, Andres, Dullo, Wolf-Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2007
• Subjects: Porcupine Seabight; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/1443/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/1443/7/Dorschel2007_Article_CarbonateBudgetOfACold-waterCo.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-005-0493-0

High resolution studies from the Propeller Mound, a cold-water coral carbonate mound in the NE Atlantic, show that this mound consists of >50% carbonate justifying the name ‘carbonate mound’. Through the last ~300,000 years approximately one third of the carbonate has been contributed by cold-wat...