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| Olu, Karine; Caprais, Jean-claude; Galeron, Joelle; Causse, R.; Von Cosel, R.; Budzinski, H.; Le Menach, K.; Le Roux, C.; Levache, D.; Khripounoff, Alexis; Sibuet, Myriam. |
| Detailed surveying with an ROV found that a dense and diverse cold-seep community colonises a giant pockmark located at 3200 m depth, 8 km north from the deep Congo channel. Several types of assemblages, either dominated by Mytilidae and Vesicomyidae bivalves or Siboglinidae polychaetes, are distributed on the 800-m diameter active area. The site is characterised by a most active central zone in a depression with abundant carbonate concretions and high methane fluxes where high-density clusters of mussels and siboglinids dominate. In contrast, the peripheral zones display large fields of dead and live vesicomyids on soft sediment, with a lower mean density and lower methane concentration in seawater. The associated megafauna includes Alvinocarididae... |
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Palavras-chave: Congo Angola margin; Atlantic Equatorial African margin; Vagrant species; Isotopic signature; Megafauna; Cold seep. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-7478.pdf |
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