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1 Of Mounds and Cold-Water Corals |
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1.1 Recent Carbonate Mounds |
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1.1.1 From Ancient Mud Mounds to Recent Carbonate Mounds |
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1.1.2 Occurrence and Distribution of Recent Carbonate Mounds |
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4 | (4) |
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8 | (3) |
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11 | (2) |
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2 Challenger Mound: A Case Study |
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2.1.1 Geological Evolution of Porcupine Basin |
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15 | (11) |
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2.1.2 Geomorphology of the Belgica Mound Province |
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26 | (4) |
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2.1.3 Oceanographic Template |
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30 | (3) |
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2.2 Drilling Challenger Mound (Site U1317) |
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33 | (6) |
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2.3 Drilling the Off-Mound Regions |
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39 | (4) |
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39 | (4) |
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43 | (1) |
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43 | (2) |
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45 | (34) |
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46 | (3) |
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3.1.1 Shipboard Measurements |
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46 | (1) |
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3.1.2 Shore Based Measurements: X-ray Computed Tomography |
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47 | (2) |
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3.2 Cyclic Record of the Carbonate Mound |
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49 | (8) |
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3.2.1 Spectral Colour Reflectance |
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50 | (4) |
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3.2.2 What's in the Matrix? |
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54 | (3) |
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3.3 Cold-Water Corals: The Framework Builders |
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57 | (8) |
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3.3.1 Quantification of Coral Fragments |
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57 | (4) |
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3.3.2 Dissolution and Fragmentation of Coral Fragments |
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61 | (4) |
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3.4 Porosity Analysis in Recent Carbonate Mounds |
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65 | (4) |
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3.5 Imaging the Off-Mound Records |
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69 | (4) |
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69 | (2) |
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71 | (2) |
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73 | (3) |
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3.6.1 Western Ireland as Source for Terrigenous Material? |
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73 | (1) |
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3.6.2 Justification of the Name "Carbonate Mound" |
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74 | (2) |
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76 | (3) |
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4 Geophysical and Geochemical Core Logging |
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79 | (42) |
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80 | (5) |
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4.1.1 Geophysical Logging |
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80 | (4) |
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4.1.2 Geochemical Logging |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (8) |
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85 | (6) |
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4.2.2 Interpretation and Correlation |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (5) |
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93 | (4) |
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4.3.2 Relationship with Physical Properties |
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97 | (1) |
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4.4 Logging the Off-Mound Records |
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98 | (11) |
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98 | (6) |
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104 | (5) |
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109 | (10) |
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4.5.1 Cyclic Record: Revealing Glacial-Interglacial Variations? |
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109 | (2) |
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4.5.2 Early Diagenesis in the Mound Record |
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111 | (6) |
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4.5.3 Depositional Processes in the Off-Mound Records |
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117 | (2) |
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119 | (2) |
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5 Magnetic Record of a Carbonate Mound |
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121 | (46) |
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122 | (4) |
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5.1.1 Shipboard Magnetic Measurements |
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122 | (1) |
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5.1.2 Shore Based Magnetic Measurements |
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123 | (3) |
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126 | (10) |
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5.2.1 Magnetostratigraphic Framework |
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126 | (5) |
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131 | (4) |
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5.2.3 Sedimentation Rates |
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135 | (1) |
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5.3 Environmental Magnetism |
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136 | (12) |
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5.3.1 Magnetic Susceptibility |
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136 | (5) |
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5.3.2 Anisotropy in Magnetic Susceptibility |
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141 | (3) |
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5.3.3 Time Series Analysis |
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144 | (4) |
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5.4 Magnetostratigraphy in the Off-Mound Regions |
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148 | (10) |
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148 | (5) |
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153 | (5) |
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158 | (8) |
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158 | (4) |
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162 | (2) |
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164 | (1) |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (1) |
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6 The Top of the Record: On-Mound and Off-Mound |
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167 | (26) |
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6.1 Material and Methodology |
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167 | (5) |
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172 | (7) |
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6.2.1 MD01-2450: SW Flank of Challenger Mound |
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173 | (4) |
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6.2.2 MD01-2452: Magellan Mound Province |
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177 | (2) |
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179 | (7) |
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6.3.1 MD01-2451G: Top of Challenger Mound |
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180 | (4) |
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6.3.2 MD01-2459G: Top of Mound Perseverance |
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184 | (2) |
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186 | (5) |
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6.4.1 Off-Mound Records and Palaeoenvironmental Changes |
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186 | (3) |
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6.4.2 On-Mound Records: Revealing Episodes of Coral Growth? |
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189 | (2) |
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191 | (2) |
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193 | (32) |
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7.1 Material and Methodology |
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194 | (3) |
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197 | (11) |
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7.2.1 What are the "Moira Mounds"? |
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197 | (3) |
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7.2.2 Micro-Bathymetric Mapping |
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200 | (8) |
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7.3 ROV-Imagery: New Ways of Looking to the Surface |
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208 | (11) |
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7.3.1 Sedimentary Facies Distribution and Faunal Presence |
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208 | (5) |
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7.3.2 Video Mosaicing: A Quantitative Approach |
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213 | (6) |
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219 | (5) |
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7.4.1 Moira Mounds: A Form of Stressed Coral Growth? |
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219 | (4) |
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7.4.2 "Dead" Mounds Next to "Live" Mounds? |
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223 | (1) |
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224 | (1) |
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8 Carbonate Mounds in the Gulf of Cadiz |
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225 | (32) |
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225 | (7) |
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225 | (3) |
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8.1.2 Oceanographic Setting |
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228 | (3) |
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8.1.3 Palaeoenvironmental Setting |
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231 | (1) |
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8.2 Material and Methodology |
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232 | (1) |
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8.3 Data Description and Interpretation |
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233 | (16) |
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8.3.1 Pen Duick Mound Province |
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233 | (8) |
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8.3.2 Renard Mound Province |
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241 | (4) |
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8.3.3 Vernadsky Mound Province |
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245 | (3) |
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8.3.4 Al Idrisi Mound Province |
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248 | (1) |
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249 | (5) |
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8.4.1 Initiation of Cold-Water Coral Growth (or Settlement) |
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249 | (1) |
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8.4.2 Extinction of Cold-Water Corals |
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250 | (1) |
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8.4.3 Cold-Water Coral Dissolution and Carbonate Precipitation |
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251 | (2) |
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8.4.4 Model for the Development of Carbonate Mounds |
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253 | (1) |
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254 | (3) |
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9 Conclusions and Outlook |
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257 | (10) |
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257 | (7) |
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9.1.1 Findings and Statements |
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257 | (3) |
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260 | (4) |
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264 | (3) |
References |
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Index |
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