Sediment dynamics and palaeo-environmental context at key stages in the Challenger cold-water coral mound formation: Clues from sediment deposits at the mound base

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2263-2280

  Huvenne, Veerle Ann Ida ^a   Van Rooij, David ^b   De Mol, Ben ^c   Thierens, Mieke ^d   O'Donnell, Rory ^d   Foubert, Anneleen ^e  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Carbonate mounds; Cold water corals; Grain size; NE Atlantic; Planktonic foraminifera assemblages; Sediment dynamics

Indexed keywords

COLD-WATER CORALS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CURRENT DYNAMICS; DRIFT SEDIMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXTS; FORMATION MECHANISM; GRAIN SIZE; HIGH-CURRENT; INITIAL STAGES; IRELAND; KEY FACTORS; MID-PLEISTOCENE REVOLUTIONS; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA ASSEMBLAGES; SCIENTIFIC DRILLING; SEDIMENT DEPOSITS; SEDIMENT DRIFT; SEDIMENT DYNAMIC; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; SIZE ANALYSIS; START-UPS;

CARBONATION; DYNAMICS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

CARBONATE SEDIMENT; COLD WATER; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CORAL REEF; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GRAIN SIZE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROFACIES; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT PROPERTY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; PORCUPINE SEABIGHT; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANTHOZOA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 72149107856     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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