Study: Cause of Stony Cold-Water Coral Death Found
reef structures on the seabed. The structures can reach heights of over 100 meters and lengths of several thousand meters. Cold-Water Corals Lived 9,500 to 4,500 Years Ago In 2016, over 2,000 cold-water [...] cold-water coral mounds were found off the coast of Namibia at water depths between 160 and 270 meters during an expedition with the METEOR research vessel. The mounds extend over 80 kilometers along the shelf [...] years ago – thus from the early to the mid-Holocene – and formed mounds with a height of up to 20 meters. As the cold-water corals fuse their skeletons with the seabed, they are dependent on currents t