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Paleo-environment of cold-water coral initiation in the NE Atlantic: implications from a deep-water carbonate mound drilling core
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Raddatz, Jacek Rüggeberg, Andres Dullo, Wolf-Christian Margreht, S. |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | The understanding of the paleo-environment during initiation and early development of deep-water carbonate mounds in the NE Atlantic is still under debate. The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 307 sailed in 2005 to the Porcupine Seabight in order to investigate for the first time sediments from the base of a giant carbonate mound (Challenger Mound, 155 m). These results indicate that the initiation and start-up phase of this carbonate mound coincides with the beginning of the Northern Hemisphere Glaciation (NHG) at around 2.6 Ma (Kano et al. 2007). Further carbonate mound development seems to be strongly dependent on rapid changes in paleo-oceanographic and climatic conditions around the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary, especially characterized and caused by intermediate water masses. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://eprints.uni-kiel.de/7479/1/597_Raddatz_2009_PaleoenvironmentOfColdwaterCoralInitiation_Talk_pubid11895.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/EGU2009-2871-1.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |