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Morphosedimentary, Structural and Benthic Characterization of Carbonate Mound Fields on the Upper Continental Slope of the Northern Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean)
| العنوان: | Morphosedimentary, Structural and Benthic Characterization of Carbonate Mound Fields on the Upper Continental Slope of the Northern Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean) |
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| المؤلفون: | Sánchez-Guillamón, Olga, Rueda, José Luis, Wienberg, Claudia, Ercilla, Gemma, Vázquez, Juan Tomás, Gómez-Ballesteros, María, Urra, Javier, Moya-Urbano, Elena, Estrada, Ferran, Hebbeln, Dierk |
| بيانات النشر: | 2022-02-28 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | Carbonate mounds clustering in three fields were characterized on the upper continental slope of the northern Alboran Sea by means of a detailed analysis of the morphosedimentary and structural features using high-resolution bathymetry and parametric profiles. The contemporary and past benthic and demersal species were studied using ROV underwater imagery and some samples. A total of 325 mounds, with heights between 1 and 18 m, and 204 buried mounds were detected between 155 to 401 m water depth. Transparent facies characterize the mounds, which root on at least six erosive surfaces, indicating different growth stages. At present, these mounds are covered with soft sediments and typical bathyal sedimentary habitat-forming species, such as sea-pens, cerianthids and sabellid polychaetes. Nevertheless, remains of colonial scleractinians, rhodoliths and bivalves were detected and their role as potential mound-forming species is discussed. We hypothesized that the formation of these mounds could be related to favorable climatic conditions for cold-water corals, possibly during the late Pleistocene. The occurrence on top of some mounds of abundant rhodoliths suggests that some mounds were in the photic zone during minimum sea level and boreal guest fauna (e.g., Modiolus modiolus), which declined in the western Mediterranean after the Termination 1a of the Last Glacial (Late Pleistocene). |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, carbonate mounds, Medio Marino, geomorphology, benthos, habitats, rhodoliths, Modiolus modiolus, Alboran Sea, research article |
| URL: | Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga AM |
| الاتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España openAccess |
| ملاحظة: | English |
| Other Numbers: | CTK oai:digital.csic.es:10261/320204 Geosciences, 12. 2022: 1-24 0098-3004 50207 1395203106 |
| المصدر المساهم: | CSIC From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsoai.on1395203106 |
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