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| Titel |
Longevity and growth rates of Desmophyllum dianthus in the Marmara Sea and its potential as centennial scale geochemical deep-sea archive |
| VerfasserIn |
Julie Trotter, Paolo Montagna, Matthias López Correa, Agostina Vertino, Malcolm McCulloch, Steve Goldstein, Benedicte Ritt, Pierre Henry, Marco Taviani |
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EGU General Assembly 2011
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Artikel
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Englisch
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PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 13 (2011) |
| Datensatznummer |
250057971
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Living framework building cold-water corals have been observed at ambient temperatures of
~13.9°C in the Ionian Sea, the Adriatic Sea, the Aegean Sea, as well as late Holocene
solitary corals in the Eastern Mediterranean. These foreshadowed the discovery of living
cold-water corals in 2007 in the Marmara Sea, where during submersible-dives (Le Nautile,
RV Atalante, MARNAUT-expedition) large and abundant occurrences of the solitary
deep-sea coral Desmophyllum dianthus were filmed and sampled along steep cliffs. These
recently dead corals have been documented at depths of  900 to 1200 m, where temperatures
of ~14.5°C and fairly low dissolved oxygen concentrations of |
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