From piston coring to IODP-drilling in recent carbonate mounds, Porcupine Seabight (SW of Ireland)

• Main Authors: Foubert, A., Henriet, J.-P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Norway; Perseverance; Porcupine Seabight; Rockall Trough; Lophelia pertusa
• Online Access: https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/214720.pdf

The carbonate mound build-up phenomenon, driven by microbial automicrite formation, has been recognized as a prominent process throughout the Palaeozoic. This process was generally believed to be extinct since the end of the Mesozoic. Fossil mounds are important reservoirs of oil and gas in a number...