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TI The Congolobe project, a multidisciplinary study of Congo deep-sea fan lobe complex: Overview of methods, strategies, observations and sampling
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AF RABOUILLE, C.
   OLU, Karine
   BAUDIN, F.
   KHRIPOUNOFF, Alexis
   DENNIELOU, Bernard
   ARNAUD-HAOND, Sophie
   BABONNEAU, Nathalie
   BAYLE, Christophe
   BECKLER, J.
   BESSETTE, Sandrine
   BOMBLED, B.
   BOURGEOIS, S.
   BRANDILY, Christophe
   CAPRAIS, Jean-Claude
   CATHALOT, Cecile
   CHARLIER, K.
   CORVAISIER, R.
   CROGUENNEC, Chantal
   CRUAUD, Perrine
   DECKER, Carole
   DROZ, L.
   GAYET, Nicolas
   GODFROY, Anne
   HOURDEZ, S.
   LE BRUCHEC, J.
   SAOUT, Johan
   LE SAOUT, Marie-Helene
   LESONGEUR, Francoise
   MARTINEZ, P.
   MEJANELLE, L.
   MICHALOPOULOS, P.
   MOUCHEL, Olivier
   NOEL, Philippe
   PASTOR, Lucie
   PICOT, M.
   PIGNET, Patricia
   POZZATO, L.
   PRUSKI, A. M.
   RABILLER, Manuella
   RAIMONET, M.
   RAGUENEAU, O.
   REYSS, J. L.
   RODIER, Philippe
   RUESCH, Blandine
   RUFFINE, Livio
   SAVIGNAC, F.
   SENYARICH, C.
   SCHNYDER, J.
   SEN, Arunima
   STETTEN, E.
   SUN, Ming Yi
   TAILLEFERT, M.
   TEIXEIRA, S.
   TISNERAT-LABORDE, N.
   TOFFIN, Laurent
   TOUROLLE, Julie
   TOUSSAINT, F.
   VETION, G.
   JOUANNEAU, J. M.
   BEZ, M.
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C1 Univ Paris Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Lab Sci Climat & Environm,UVSQ 8212 & IPSL, Ave Terrasse, F-91190 Gif Sur Yvette, France.
   IFREMER, Ctr Bretagne, Lab Environm Profond, REM EEP LEP, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   UPMC, Sorbonne Univ, CNRS, Inst Sci Terre Paris,UMR 7193, Case 117,4 Pl Jussieu, F-75252 Paris 05, France.
   IFREMER, Dept REM, Unite Rech Geoscie Marines, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   IFREMER, CNRS, Lab Microbiol Environm Extremes, Technopele Brest Iroise,UMR UBO 6197, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Inst Univ Europeen Mer, Lab Domaines Ocean, CNRS, UMR UBO 6538, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Earth & Atmospher Sci, 311 Ferst Dr, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA.
   Sorbonne Univ, UPMC, CNRS, Lab Ecogeochim Environm Benth,UMR 8222,Observ Oce, Banyuls Sur Mer, France.
   Univ Bordeaux, Environm & Paleoenvironm Ocean & Continentaux, UMR 5805, Allee Geoffroy St Hilaire, F-33615 Pessac, France.
   Inst Univ Europeen Mer, CNRS, Lab Sci Environm Marin, UMR UBO, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   UPMC, CNRS, Equipe Ecophysiol Adaptat & Evolut Mol, Stn Biolog Roscoff,UMR 7144, F-29680 Roscoff, France.
   Hellen Ctr Marine Res, POB 712,PC 19013, Anavyssos Attiki, Greece.
   Univ Georgia, Dept Marine Sci, Athens, GA 30602 USA.
   Univ Algarve, CIMAR, Ctr Marine Sci, Campus Gambelas, P-8005139 Faro, Portugal.
   Total Ctr Scientif & Tech Jean Feger, Ave Larribau, F-64018 Pau, France.
C2 UNIV PARIS SACLAY, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UBO, FRANCE
   GEORGIA INST TECHNOL, USA
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   UNIV BORDEAUX, FRANCE
   UBO, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
   HELLEN CTR MARINE RES, GREECE
   UNIV GEORGIA, USA
   UNIV ALGARVE, PORTUGAL
   TOTAL, FRANCE
SI BREST
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   PDG-REM-GM-LGS
   PDG-REM-EEP-LMEE
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   PDG-REM-GM-CTDI
   PDG-RBE-PFOM-ARN
   PDG-REM-GM-LGM
UM BEEP-LM2E
   LEMAR
   LGO
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
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   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 2.451
TC 28
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00335/44580/44298.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR CONGOLOBE
   WACS
BO Pourquoi pas ?
DE ;Chemosynthetic habitats;Congo deep-sea fan;Fine sediment;Sedimentation rate;Seafloor morphology;Turbidite;Vesicomyidae
AB The presently active region of the Congo deep-sea fan (around 330 000 km2), called the terminal lobes or lobe complex, covers an area of 2500 km2 at 4700–5100 m water depth and 750–800 km offshore. It is a unique sedimentary area in the world ocean fed by a submarine canyon and a channel-levee system which presently deliver large amounts of organic carbon originating from the Congo River by turbidity currents. This particularity is due to the deep incision of the shelf by the Congo canyon, up to 30 km into the estuary, which funnels the Congo River sediments into the deep-sea. The connection between the river and the canyon is unique for major world rivers.  In 2011, two cruises (WACS leg 2 and Congolobe) were conducted to simultaneously investigate the geology, organic and inorganic geochemistry, and micro- and macro-biology of the terminal lobes of the Congo deep-sea fan. Using this multidisciplinary approach, the morpho-sedimentary features of the lobes were characterized along with the origin and reactivity of organic matter, the recycling and burial of biogenic compounds, the diversity and function of bacterial and archaeal communities within the sediment, and the biodiversity and functioning of the faunal assemblages on the seafloor. Six different sites were selected for this study: Four distributed along the active channel from the lobe complex entrance to the outer rim of the sediment deposition zone, and two positioned cross-axis and at increasing distance from the active channel, thus providing a gradient in turbidite particle delivery and sediment age.  This paper aims to provide the general context of this multidisciplinary study. It describes the general features of the site and the overall sampling strategy and provides the initial habitat observations to guide the other in-depth investigations presented in this special issue. Detailed bathymetry of each sampling site using 0.1 m to 1 m resolution multibeam obtained with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) shows progressive widening and smoothing of the channel-levees with increasing depth and reveals a complex morphology with channel bifurcations, erosional features and massive deposits. Dense ecosystems surveyed in the study area gather high density clusters of two large-sized species of symbiotic Vesicomyidae bivalves and microbial mats. These assemblages, which are rarely observed in sedimentary zones, resemble those based on chemosynthesis at cold-seep sites, such as the active pockmarks encountered along the Congo margin, and share with these sites the dominant vesicomyid species Christineconcha regab. Sedimentation rates estimated in the lobe complex range between 0.5 and 10 cm yr−1, which is 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than values generally encountered at abyssal depths. The bathymetry, faunal assemblages and sedimentation rates make the Congo lobe complex a highly peculiar deep-sea habitat driven by high inputs of terrigenous material delivered by the Congo channel-levee system.
PY 2017
PD AUG
SO Deep-sea Research Part Ii-topical Studies In Oceanography
SN 0967-0645
PU Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd
VL 142
UT 000408783500002
BP 7
EP 24
DI 10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.05.006
ID 44580
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