The carbonate factories model, as defined at the beginning of the century, provides a
subdivision of marine carbonate sediment production‐systems based on the style of …

Deep-sea corals were discovered over a century ago, but it is only over recent years that
focused efforts have been made to explore the history of the oceans using the geochemistry …

An era of expanding deep-ocean industrialization is before us, with policy makers
establishing governance frameworks for sustainable management of deep-sea resources …

The largest coherent cold-water coral (CWC) mound province in the Atlantic Ocean exists
along the Mauritanian margin, where up to 100 m high mounds extend over a distance of∼ …

Here, the potential for rapid and accurate U–Th dating technique of marine aragonite
skeletons (deep-sea corals, Lophelia pertusa) and secondary calcite deposits (speleothems …

Over the recent years, two research fields addressing continental slope sedimentary
systems have gained significant momentum: contourites and cold-water coral mounds …

U-series age patterns obtained on reef framework–forming cold-water corals collected over
a nearly 6000-km-long continental margin sector, extending from off Mauritania (17° N; …

In the southern oceans, only a few cold-water coral mound sites have so far been reported
compared to the extensively surveyed North Atlantic. Here, we document for the first time the …

With an extension of> 40 km 2 the recently discovered Campeche cold-water coral province
located at the northeastern rim of the Campeche Bank in the southern Gulf of Mexico …

Cold-water corals are common along the Moroccan continental margin off Melilla in the
Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean Sea), where they colonise and largely cover mound …