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

• Main Authors: Thierens, M., Browning, E., Pirlet, H., Loutre, M.-F., Dorschel, B., Huvenne, V.A.I., Titschack, J., Colin, C., Foubert, Anneleen, Wheeler, A.J.
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Porcupine Seabight; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://doc.rero.ch/record/205525/files/fou_cwc.pdf; http://doc.rero.ch/record/205525/files/fou_cwc_sm.pdf; http://doc.rero.ch/record/205525/files/fou_cwc_sm2.pdf

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...