Age constraints on the origin and growth history of a deep-water coral mound in the northeast Atlantic drilled during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 307

• Main Authors: Kano, A., Ferdelman, T., Williams, T., Henriet, J., Ishikawa, T., Kawagoe, N., Talkashima, C., Kakizaki, Y., Abe, K., Sakai, S., Browning, E., Li, X.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Porcupine Seabight; Lophelia pertusa; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-CDDE-F

Sr isotope stratigraphy provides a new age model for the first complete section drilled through a deep-water coral mound. The 155-m-long section from Challenger Mound in the Porcupine Sea-bight, southwest of Ireland, is on Miocene siliciclastics and consists entirely of sediments bearing well-preser...