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

Thierens, M. ; Browning, E. ; Pirlet, H. ; Loutre, M.-F. ; Dorschel, B. ; Huvenne, V.A.I. ; Titschack, J. ; Colin, C. ; Foubert, Anneleen ; Wheeler, A.J.

In: Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013, vol. 73, p. 14–30

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 of the Challenger Mound (eastern Porcupine Seabight; NE Atlantic) not only retrieved the first complete developmental...