Environmental forcing by submarine canyons: evidence between two closely situated cold-water coral mounds (Porcupine Bank Canyon and Western Porcupine Bank, NE Atlantic)

• Published in: Marine Geology
• Main Authors: O'Reilly, Luke, Fentimen, Robin, Butschek, Felix, Titschack, Jürgen, Lim, Aaron, Moore, Niamh, O'Connor, Owen J., Appah, John, Harris, Kim, Vennemann, Torsten, Wheeler, Andrew J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Benthic foraminifera assemblages; Cold-water corals; Holocene; NE Atlantic; Submarine canyon; Porcupine Bank; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10468/14021; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106930

Within the Porcupine Bank Canyon (NE Atlantic), cold-water coral (CWC) mounds are mostly found clustered along the canyon lip, with individual disconnected mounds occurring nearby on the western Porcupine Bank. Remotely operated vehicle-mounted vibrocoring was utilized to acquire cores from both of...