[BOEK][B] Cold-water corals: the biology and geology of deep-sea coral habitats

JM Roberts - 2009 - books.google.com
" There are more coral species in deep, cold-waters than in tropical coral reefs. This broad-
ranging treatment is the first to synthesise current understanding of all types of cold-water …

The white coral community in the central Mediterranean Sea revealed by ROV surveys

AN FreiwAld, L Beuck, A Rüggeberg, M Taviani… - Oceanography, 2009 - JSTOR
White coral communities consist of scleractinian corals that thrive in the ocean's bathyal
depths (~ 200–4000 m). In the Atlantic Ocean, white corals are known to form complex, three …

Structure and drivers of cold seep ecosystems

JP FoUCHER, GK WESTBRooK, A Boetius… - Oceanography, 2009 - JSTOR
Submarine hydrocarbon seeps are geologically driven" hotspots" of increased biological
activity on the seabed. As part of the HERMES project, several sites of natural hydrocarbon …

Offshore remobilization processes and deposits in low-energy temperate-water carbonate-ramp systems: examples from the Neogene basins of the Betic Cordillera …

Á Puga-Bernabéu, JM Martín, JC Braga, J Aguirre - Sedimentary Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
General facies models developed for modern and ancient Mediterranean temperate-water
carbonates in the last two decades have shown that the style of deposition on outer-ramp …

An onshore bathyal record of tectonics and climate cycles at the onset of the Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition in the eastern Mediterranean

F Quillévéré, N Nouailhat, S Joannin, JJ Cornee… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Early Pleistocene (Calabrian) clays of the Lindos Bay Formation have been uplifted
and are exposed today on the eastern coast of Rhodes (Hellenic forearc, Greece). The …

Palaeoecology, taphonomy, and preservation of a lower Pliocene shell bed (coquina) from a volcanic oceanic island (Santa Maria Island, Azores)

SP Ávila, RS Ramalho, JM Habermann… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
Massive fossil shell accumulations require particular conditions to be formed and may
provide valuable insights into the sedimentary environments favouring such concentrations …

Cold-water coral reefs in the oxygen minimum zones off West Africa

C Wienberg, A Freiwald, N Frank, F Mienis… - Cold-water coral reefs of …, 2023 - Springer
The discoveries of large reefs within cold-water coral mound provinces revealed that the
West African margin is a coral hotspot area in the Atlantic Ocean. The most striking …

Discrete Plio-Pleistocene phases of tilting and counterclockwise rotation in the southeastern Aegean arc (Rhodos, Greece): early Pliocene formation of the south …

DJJ Van Hinsbergen, W Krijgsman… - Journal of the …, 2007 - lyellcollection.org
The island of Rhodos represents an uplifted block in the largely submerged southeastern
Aegean forearc. It has a complex history of subsidence, uplift and counterclockwise rotation …

Mediterranean cold‐water corals–an important regional carbonate factory?

J Titschack, HG Fink, D Baum… - The Depositional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents aggradation rates supplemented for the first time by carbonate
accumulation rates from Mediterranean cold‐water coral sites considering three different …

Tectonic motion in oblique subduction forearcs: insights from the revisited Middle and Upper Pleistocene deposits of Rhodes, Greece

JJ Cornée, F Quillévéré, P Moissette… - Journal of the …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
The sedimentary model of coastal deposits in eastern Rhodes over the last 2 Ma is refined
and improved in accuracy. New field investigations and U/Th dating of Spondylus bivalve …