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| Olu, Karine; Decker, Carole; Pastor, Lucie; Caprais, Jean-claude; Khripounoff, Alexis; Morineaux, Marie; Ain Baziz, M.; Menot, Lenaick; Rabouille, C.. |
| Methane-rich fluids arising from organic matter diagenesis in deep sediment layers sustain chemosynthesis-based ecosystems along continental margins. This type of cold seep develops on pockmarks along the Congo margin, where fluids migrate from deep-buried paleo-channels of the Congo River, acting as reservoirs. Similar ecosystems based on shallow methane production occur in the terminal lobes of the present-day Congo deep-sea fan, which is supplied by huge quantities of primarily terrestrial material carried by turbiditic currents along the 800 km channel, and deposited at depths of up to nearly 5000 m. In this paper, we explore the effect of this carbon enrichment of deep-sea sediments on benthic macrofauna, along the prograding lobes fed by the current... |
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Palavras-chave: Chemosynthesis-based ecosystems; Cold seeps; Organic rich sediments; Macrofaunal communities. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00384/49561/50053.pdf |
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