A 300 000-year record of cold-water coral mound build-up at the East Melilla Coral Province (SE Alboran Sea, western Mediterranean)

• Published in: Climate of the Past
• Main Authors: Fentimen, Robin, Feenstra, Eline, Ruggeberg, Andres, Hall, Efraim, Rime, Valentin, Vennemann, Torsten, Hajdas, Irka, Rosso, Antonietta, Van Rooij, David, Adatte, Thierry, Vogel, Hendrik, Frank, Norbert, Foubert, Anneleen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences; LEVANTINE INTERMEDIATE WATER; LOPHELIA-PERTUSA SCLERACTINIA; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL FAUNAS; COVERED CARBONATE MOUND; CONTINENTAL-SLOPE; ROCKALL TROUGH; GROWTH HISTORY; PORCUPINE SEABIGHT; NORTHEAST ATLANTIC; LATE PLEISTOCENE; Porcupine Seabight; Rockall Trough; Lophelia pertusa; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8765363; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8765363; https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1915-2022; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8765363/file/8765364

This study provides a detailed reconstruction of cold-water coral mound build-up within the East Melilla Coral Province (southeastern Alboran Sea), more precisely at the northern part of Brittlestar Ridge I, over the last 300 kyr. The multiproxy investigation of core MD13-3462G reveals that mound bu...