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Author Foubert, Anneleen.

Title Nature and significance of the recent carbonate mound record : the Mound Challenger code / Anneleen Foubert, Jean-Pierre Henriet
Published Berlin : Springer, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Lecture notes in earth sciences ; 126
Lecture notes in earth sciences ; 126.
Contents Of Mounds and Cold-Water Corals -- Challenger Mound: A Case Study -- Imaging -- Geophysical and Geochemical Core Logging -- Magnetic Record of a Carbonate Mound -- The Top of the Record: On-Mound and Off-Mound -- Surface Processes -- Carbonate Mounds in the Gulf of Cadiz -- Conclusions and Outlook
Summary The discovery of recent carbonate mounds and cold-water coral reefs along the European continental margins is a major achievement of the past decade. Different research projects have been developed, fueling vivid debates. The objectives of this study, which rides the wave of recent carbonate mound and cold-water coral research, are twofold: (1) to elucidate for the first time in history the nature and internal structure of a whole carbonate mound body, from base to top, and (2) to discuss the significance of the recent carbonate mound record. Challenger Mound, localized in Porcupine Seabight SW of Ireland, has been drilled during IODP Expedition Leg 307 "Modern Carbonate Mounds: Porcupine Drilling". The obtained mound record is compared with other mound structures in Porcupine Seabight and with a cluster of mounds in the Gulf of Cadiz, along the Moroccan margin. In this way, the authors highlight that recent carbonate mounds form a specific and important category within the wide range of diverse deep-water carbonate systems
Analysis geologische sedimentatie
geological sedimentation
geologie
geology
ecologie
ecology
zoetwaterecologie
freshwater ecology
mariene ecologie
marine ecology
aardwetenschappen
earth sciences
Geology (General)
Geologie (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mud mounds.
Mud mounds -- North Atlantic Ocean
Sciences de la terre.
Environnement.
Mud mounds
North Atlantic Ocean
Form Electronic book
Author Henriet, J.-P.
ISBN 9783642002908
3642002900
9783642002892
3642002897