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

• Main Authors: Thierens, M., Browning, E., Pirlet, H., Loutre, M.F., Dorschel, B., Huvenne, V.A.I., Titschack, J., Colin, Christophe, Foubert, A., Wheeler, A.J.
• Other Authors: School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences Cork (BEES), University College Cork (UCC), Department of Geosciences Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), University of Massachusetts System (UMASS)-University of Massachusetts System (UMASS), Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Universiteit Gent = Ghent University (UGENT), Institut d'Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître (UCL-ASTR), Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Southampton Geology & Geophysics, National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Center for Marine Environmental Sciences Bremen (MARUM), Universität Bremen, Senckenberg am Meer, Abteilung für Meeresforschung, Géosciences Paris Sud (GEOPS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Geosciences Fribourg, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2013
• Subjects: [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Porcupine Seabight; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00836232

International audience 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...