Chapter Twelve Deep-Sea Corals: New Insights to Paleoceanography

Publisher This chapter focuses on the deep-sea corals. Deep-Sea corals provide a widespread archive of oceanographic processes, with annual- to decadal-resolution records spanning several centuries in length. They are ideally suited to the study of rapid changes, such as that which characterized the Pleistocene–Holocene transition. Deep-sea scleractinians exhibit a wide variety of growth forms, from simple, solitary cup corals to complex, …