Blar i forfatter "Moumets, Heike"
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The Fugløy cold-water coral reefs on the south-western Barents Sea shelf: their morphology, distribution and environmental setting
Moumets, Heike (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2008-12-15)The Fugløy area is located on the south-western Barents Sea shelf, in northern Norway. Multibeam echosounder bathymetry data, backscatter data and high-resolution seismic profiles were used to identify cold-water coral reefs. Together 12 cold-water coral reefs were mapped. Coral reefs have the highest density of up to 1.39 reefs per km² on top of ridges of morainic origin and they occur in areas ...