Cold-water coral mounds peaks off on the northern Namibia shelf

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An exceptionally large cold-water coral mound province (CMP) was recently discovered extending over 80 km along the Namibian shelf (offshore southwestern Africa) in water depths of 160–270 m. This hitherto unknown CMP comprises >2000 mounds with heights of up to 20 m and constitutes the largest CMP known from the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Here, the position of the peaks of the Namibian coral mounds is reported.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.956090
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1130/G46672.1
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.944595
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.944627
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Provenance
Creator Tamborrino, Leonardo ORCID logo; Hebbeln, Dierk ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 390741603 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/390741603 EXC 2077: The Ocean Floor – Earth's Uncharted Interface
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 8060 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (12.631W, -21.017S, 12.956E, -20.369N)