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A. Foubert D. Van Rooij D. Blamart J.-P. Henriet 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2007,96(1):141-158
Three provinces, characterized by the presence of carbonate mounds interpreted as cold-water coral banks have been reported
in Porcupine Seabight, SW of Ireland and were recently subjected to many detailed studies. This contribution discusses the
use of X-ray imagery and physical properties in deciphering palaeoceanographic, sedimentological and biological processes.
Physical property core logging and X-ray imagery are used to identify and describe sedimentation regimes and so their respective
palaeoceanographic and palaeoclimatological settings in two mound provinces, respectively the Belgica mound province and the
Magellan mound province. Both provinces show at present time clear differences in the hydrodynamic environment. This study
confirms that also during the past the oceanographic and sedimentological environment of both provinces differ clearly. Impacts
of glacial–interglacial variations and locally derived ice rafting events (IRE), comparable with the North Atlantic Heinrich
events (HE) have been recognized in both provinces. Moreover, the combination of X-ray imagery, magnetic susceptibility, gamma
density and P-wave velocity makes it possible to estimate the coral content and coral distribution in unopened cores localized
on top of carbonate mounds. A comparison between on-mound and off-mound cores in both provinces allowed revealing some mechanisms
of mound evolution and coral growth versus time. 相似文献
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HANS PIRLET LAURA M. WEHRMANN BENJAMIN BRUNNER NORBERT FRANK JAN DEWANCKELE DAVID VAN ROOIJ ANNELEEN FOUBERT RUDY SWENNEN LIEVEN NAUDTS MATTHIEU BOONE VEERLE CNUDDE JEAN‐PIERRE HENRIET 《Sedimentology》2010,57(3):786-805
Authigenic gypsum was found in a gravity core, retrieved from the top of Mound Perseverance, a giant cold‐water coral mound in the Porcupine Basin, off Ireland. The occurrence of gypsum in such an environment is intriguing, because gypsum, a classic evaporitic mineral, is undersaturated with respect to sea water. Sedimentological, petrographic and isotopic evidence point to diagenetic formation of the gypsum, tied to oxidation of sedimentary sulphide minerals (i.e. pyrite). This oxidation is attributed to a phase of increased bottom currents which caused erosion and enhanced inflow of oxidizing fluids into the mound sediments. The oxidation of pyrite produced acidity, causing carbonate dissolution and subsequently leading to pore‐water oversaturation with respect to gypsum and dolomite. Calculations based on the isotopic compositions of gypsum and pyrite reveal that between 21·6% and 28·6% of the sulphate incorporated into the gypsum derived from pyrite oxidation. The dissolution of carbonate increased the porosity in the affected sediment layer but promoted lithification of the sediments at the sediment‐water interface. Thus, authigenic gypsum can serve as a signature for diagenetic oxidation events in carbonate‐rich sediments. These observations demonstrate that fluid flow, steered by environmental factors, has an important effect on the diagenesis of coral mounds. 相似文献
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Nutrient distributions across the Porcupine Bank 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
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Jenny Brunnegrd Sibylle Grandel Henrik Sthl Anders Tengberg Per O.J. Hall 《Progress in Oceanography》2004,63(4):159-181
Rates of transformation, recycling and burial of nitrogen and their temporal and spatial variability were investigated in deep-sea sediments of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP), NE Atlantic during eight cruises from 1996 to 2000. Benthic fluxes of ammonium (NH4) and nitrate (NO3) were measured in situ using a benthic lander. Fluxes of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and denitrification rates were calculated from pore water profiles of DON and NO3, respectively. Burial of nitrogen was calculated from down core profiles of nitrogen in the solid phase together with 14C-based sediment accumulation rates and dry bulk density. Average NH4 and NO3-effluxes were 7.4 ± 19 μmol m−2 d−1 (n = 7) and 52 ± 30 μmol m−2 d−1 (n = 14), respectively, during the period 1996–2000. During the same period, the DON-flux was 11 ± 5.6 μmol m−2 d−1 (n = 5) and the denitrification rate was 5.1 ± 3.0 μmol m−2 d−1 (n = 22). Temporal and spatial variations were only found in the benthic NO3 fluxes. The average burial rate was 4.6 ± 0.9 μmol m−2 d−1. On average over the sampling period, the recycling efficiency of the PON input to the sediment was 94% and the burial efficiency hence 6%. The DON flux constituted 14% of the nitrogen recycled, and it was of similar magnitude as the sum of burial and denitrification. By assuming the PAP is representative of all deep-sea areas, rates of denitrification, burial and DON efflux were extrapolated to the total area of the deep-sea floor (>2000 m) and integrated values of denitrification and burial of 8 ± 5 and 7 ± 1 Tg N year−1, respectively, were obtained. This value of total deep-sea sediment denitrification corresponds to 3–12% of the global ocean benthic denitrification. Burial in deep-sea sediments makes up at least 25% of the global ocean nitrogen burial. The integrated DON flux from the deep-sea floor is comparable in magnitude to a reported global riverine input of DON suggesting that deep-sea sediments constitute an important source of DON to the world ocean. 相似文献
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Colm Ó Cofaigh S. Louise Callard David H. Roberts Richard C. Chiverrell C. K. Ballantyne David J. A. Evans Margot Saher Katrien J. J. Van Landeghem Rachel Smedley Sara Benetti Matthew Burke Chris D. Clark Geoff A. T. Duller Derek Fabel Stephen J. Livingstone Stephen Mccarron Alicia Medialdea Steven G. Moreton Fabio Sacchetti 《第四纪科学杂志》2021,36(5):805-832
Understanding the pace and drivers of marine-based ice-sheet retreat relies upon the integration of numerical ice-sheet models with observations from contemporary polar ice sheets and well-constrained palaeo-glaciological reconstructions. This paper provides a reconstruction of the retreat of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) from the Atlantic shelf west of Ireland during and following the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). It uses marine-geophysical data and sediment cores dated by radiocarbon, combined with terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide and optically stimulated luminescence dating of onshore ice-marginal landforms, to reconstruct the timing and rate of ice-sheet retreat from the continental shelf and across the adjoining coastline of Ireland, thus including the switch from a marine- to a terrestrially-based ice-sheet margin. Seafloor bathymetric data in the form of moraines and grounding-zone wedges on the continental shelf record an extensive ice sheet west of Ireland during the LGM which advanced to the outer shelf. This interpretation is supported by the presence of dated subglacial tills and overridden glacimarine sediments from across the Porcupine Bank, a westwards extension of the Irish continental shelf. The ice sheet was grounded on the outer shelf at ~26.8 ka cal bp with initial retreat underway by 25.9 ka cal bp. Retreat was not a continuous process but was punctuated by marginal oscillations until ~24.3 ka cal bp. The ice sheet thereafter retreated to the mid-shelf where it formed a large grounding-zone complex at ~23.7 ka cal bp. This retreat occurred in a glacimarine environment. The Aran Islands on the inner continental shelf were ice-free by ~19.5 ka bp and the ice sheet had become largely terrestrially based by 17.3 ka bp. This suggests that the Aran Islands acted to stabilize and slow overall ice-sheet retreat once the BIIS margin had reached the inner shelf. Our results constrain the timing of initial retreat of the BIIS from the outer shelf west of Ireland to the period of minimum global eustatic sea level. Initial retreat was driven, at least in part, by glacio-isostatically induced, high relative sea level. Net rates of ice-sheet retreat across the shelf were slow (62–19 m a−1) and reduced (8 m a−1) as the ice sheet vacated the inner shelf and moved onshore. A picture therefore emerges of an extensive BIIS on the Atlantic shelf west of Ireland, in which early, oscillatory retreat was followed by slow episodic retreat which decelerated further as the ice margin became terrestrially based. More broadly, this demonstrates the importance of localized controls, in particular bed topography, on modulating the retreat of marine-based sectors of ice sheets. 相似文献
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The Magellan mound province in the Porcupine Basin 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
V. A. I. Huvenne W. R. Bailey P. M. Shannon J. Naeth R. di Primio J. P. Henriet B. Horsfield H. de Haas A. Wheeler K. Olu-Le Roy 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2007,96(1):85-101
The Magellan mound province is one of the three known provinces of carbonate mounds or cold-water coral banks in the Porcupine
Seabight, west of Ireland. It has been studied in detail using a large and varied data set: 2D and 3D seismic data, sidescan
sonar imagery and video data collected during ROV deployment have been used to describe the mounds in terms of origin, growth
processes and burial. The aim of this paper is to present the Magellan mounds and their setting in an integrated, holistic
way.
More than 1,000 densely spaced and mainly buried mounds have been identified in the area. They all seem to be rooted on one
seismic reflection, suggesting a sudden mound start-up. Their size and spatial distribution characteristics are presented,
together with the present-day appearance of the few mounds that reach the seabed. The underlying geology has been studied
by means of fault analysis and numerical basin modelling in an attempt to identify possible hydrocarbon migration pathways
below or in the surroundings of the Magellan mounds.
Although conclusive evidence concerning the processes of mound initiation proves to be elusive, the results of both fault
analysis and 2D numerical modelling failed to identify, with confidence, any direct pathways for focused hydrocarbon flow
to the Magellan province. Diffuse seepage however may have taken place, as drainage area modelling suggests a possible link
between mound position and structural features in the Hovland-Magellan area. During mound development and growth, the interplay
of currents and sedimentation seems to have been the most important control. Mounds which could not keep pace with the sedimentation
rates were buried, and on the few mounds which maintained growth, only a few corals survive at present. 相似文献
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Cold-water coral banks and submarine landslides: a review 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
This paper aims to review the relation between cold-water coral bank development and submarine landslides. Both are common
features on continental margins, but so far it has not been reviewed which effect—if at all—they may have upon each other.
Indirect and direct relations between coral banks and landslides are evaluated here, based on four case studies: the Magellan
Mound Province in the Porcupine Seabight, where fossil coral banks appear partly on top of a buried slide deposit; the Sula
Ridge Reef Complex and the Storegga landslide both off mid-Norway; and the Mauritania coral bank province, associated with
the Mauritanian Slide Complex. For each of these locations, positive and negative relationships between both features are
discussed, based on available datasets. Locally submarine landslides might directly favour coral bank development by creating
substratum where corals can settle on, enhancing turbulence due to abrupt seabed morphological variations and, in some cases,
causing fluid seepage. In turn, some of these processes may contribute to increased food availability and lower sedimentation
rates. Landslides can also affect coral bank development by direct erosion of the coral banks, and by the instantaneous increase
of turbidity, which may smother the corals. On the other hand, coral banks might have a stabilising function and delay or
stop the headwall retrogradation of submarine landslides. Although local relationships can be deduced from these case studies,
no general and direct relationship exists between submarine landslides and cold-water coral banks. 相似文献
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The nematofauna associated with a cold-water coral degradation zone in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic) was investigated. This is the first comprehensive study of nematodes associated with cold-water corals. This research mainly aimed to investigate the influence of microhabitat type on nematode community structure. Three distinct microhabitats for nematodes were distinguished: dead coral fragments, glass sponge skeletons and the underlying sediment. The nematode assemblages associated with these three microhabitats were significantly different from each other. Coral and sponge substrata lie relatively unprotected on the seafloor and are consequently more subjected to strong currents than the underlying sediment. As a result, both large biogenic substrata were characterized by higher abundances of taxa that are less vulnerable and more adapted to physical disturbance, whereas the underlying sediment yielded more slender, sediment-dwelling taxa. Typically epifaunal taxa, such as Epsilonematidae and Draconematidae, were especially abundant on dead coral fragments, where they are thought to feed on the microbial biofilm which covers the coral surface. Several epifaunal genera showed significant preferences for this microhabitat, and Epsilonema (Epsilonematidae) was dominant here. Sponge skeletons are thought to act as efficient sediment traps, resulting in a lower abundance of epifaunal taxa compared to coral fragments. The underlying sediment was dominated by taxa typical for slope sediments. The considerable degree of overlap between the communities of each microhabitat is attributed to sediment infill between the coral branches and sponge spicules. It is assumed that the nematofauna associated with large biogenic substrata is composed of a typical sediment-dwelling background community, supplemented with taxa adapted to an epifaunal life strategy. The extent to which these taxa contribute to the community depends on the type of the substratum. Selective deposit feeders were dominant on sponge skeletons and in the underlying sediment, whereas coral fragments were dominated by epistratum feeders. The presence of a microbial biofilm on the coral fragments is proposed as an explanation for the significant preference of epistratum feeders for this microhabitat. Densities in the underlying sediment were low in comparison with other studies, but biodiversity was higher here than on the coral and sponge fragments, a difference which is attributed to lower disturbance. Nevertheless, the large biogenic substrata provide a microhabitat for rare, epifaunal taxa, and fragments of both substrata within the sediment increase habitat complexity and hence biodiversity. 相似文献
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M. Söffker K.A. SlomanJ.M. Hall-Spencer 《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2011,58(8):818-825
The abundance and behaviour of fish on and around coral reefs at Twin Mounds and Giant Mounds, carbonate mounds located on the continental shelf off Ireland (600-1100 m), were studied using two Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) dives. We recorded 30 fish taxa on the dives, together with three species of Scleractinia (Lophelia pertusa, Madrepora oculata and Desmophyllum cristagalli) and a diverse range of other corals (Antipatharia, Alcyonacea, and Stylasteridae). Stands of live coral provided the only habitat in which Guttigadus latifrons was observed whereas Neocyttus helgae was found predominantly on structural habitats provided by dead coral. Significantly more fish were found on structurally complex coral rubble habitats than on flatter areas where coral rubble was clogged with sand. The most common species recorded was Lepidion eques (2136 individuals), which always occurred a few cm above bottom and was significantly more active on the reefs than on sedimentary habitats. Synaphobranchus kaupii (1157 indiv.), N. helgae (198 indiv.) and Micromesistius poutassou (116 indiv.) were also common; S. kaupii did not exhibit habitat-related differences in behaviour, whilst N. helgae was more active over the reefs and other structured habitats whereas M. poutassou was more active with decreasing habitat complexity. Trawl damage and abandoned fishing gear was observed at both sites. We conclude that Irish coral reefs provide complex habitats that are home to a diverse assemblage of fish utilising the range of niches occurring both above and within the reef structure. 相似文献