Publication Date:
2024-02-02
Description:
Coral mounds formed by framework-forming cold-water corals pierce the seabed along most continental margins of the Atlantic Ocean and new sites are continuously being discovered. Here, we describe an extremely high accumulation of coral mounds at the NW Moroccan Atlantic margin between 35°N and 35.5°N. Within an area of only 1,440 km2, 3,464 mounds were found exposed at the seabed. This dataset includes position and morphometry of these coral mounds located between~500 m and 1000 m water depth.
Keywords:
Area; Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; cold-water corals; contintal margin; coral mounds; CT; DEPTH, water; Direction; Identification; LATITUDE; Length; LONGITUDE; Maria S. Merian; MARUM; Morocco; Morphometry; MSM36; MSM36-track; Underway cruise track measurements; UTM Easting, Universal Transverse Mercator; UTM Northing, Universal Transverse Mercator; UTM Zone, Universal Transverse Mercator; Width
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 27657 data points
