Enigmatic Deep-Water Mounds on the Orphan Knoll, Labrador Sea

Enigmatic Deep-Water Mounds on the Orphan Knoll, Labrador Sea

Deep-sea mounds can have a variety of origins and may provide hard-substrate features in depths that are normally dominated by mud. Orphan Knoll, a 2 km high bedrock horst off northeast Newfoundland, hosts more than 200 mounds, or mound complexes, of unknown composition, in water depths of 1720–2500...

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Main Authors: Shawn P. Meredyk, Evan Edinger, David J. W. Piper, Veerle A. I. Huvenne, Shannon Hoy, Alan Ruffman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
Orphan Knoll
deep-sea
mound
multibeam sonar
Northwest Atlantic
cold-water corals
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2019.00744/full

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