Cold-Water Coral Ecosystem Functioning through Time in the Deep Sea: The example of cold-water coral carbonate mounds in the northeast Atlantic (from IODP307 to EuroMARC - CARBONATE)

• Main Authors: Wheeler, A.J., Ferdelman, T., Freiwald, A., Hebbeln, D., Henriet, J.P., Kano, A., Swennen, R., van Weering, T.C.E., Williams, T., de Haas, H., Dorschel, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Norway; Porcupine Seabight; Lophelia pertusa; Northeast Atlantic; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/214729.pdf

Along the European Atlantic continental margin, recent to young (late Quaternary) fossil carbonate mounds and build-ups by cold-water corals (predominantly the framework forming ahermatypic corals Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata ) occur from northern Norway to the Gulf of Cadiz with an emergi...