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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Alan Jamieson, Dr Thomas Linley
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2018 High definition video from a towed camera system was used to describe the deep-sea benthic habitats within an elongate depression located at the western margin of Rockall Bank in the Hatton–Rockall Basin. At depths greater than 1190 m, an extensive area (10 km long by 1.5 km wide) of what appeared to be reduced sediments, bacterial mats and flocculent matter indicated possible cold-seep habitat. Plumes of sediment-rich fluid were observed alongside raised elongate features that gave topographic relief to the otherwise flat seafloor. In the deepest section of the depression (1215 m) dense flocculent matter was observed suspended in the water column, in places obscuring the seabed. Away from the bacterial mats, the habitat changed rapidly to sediments dominated by tube-dwelling polychaete worms and then to deep-sea sedimentary habitats more typical for the water depth (sponges and burrowing megafauna in areas of gentle slopes, and coral gardens on steeper slopes).
Author(s): Neat FC, Jamieson AJ, Stewart HA, Narayanaswamy BE, Collie N, Stewart M, Linley TD
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Year: 2019
Volume: 99
Issue: 2
Pages: 271-277
Print publication date: 01/03/2019
Online publication date: 27/03/2018
Acceptance date: 02/02/2018
Date deposited: 15/06/2018
ISSN (print): 0025-3154
ISSN (electronic): 1469-7769
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315418000115
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315418000115
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