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Amaro, Teresa; Huvenne, Veerle A.I.; Allcock, A. Louise; Aslam, Tahmeena; Davies, Jaime S.; Danovaro, Roberto; De Stigter, Henko C.; Duineveld, Gérard C.A.; Gambi, Cristina; Gooday, Andrew J.; Gunton, Laetitia M.; Hall, Rob A.; Howell, Kerry L.; Ingels, Jeroen; Kiriakoulakis, Konstadinos; Kershaw,
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The canyon has been used as subject for numerous scientific research, ranging from its sediment transport to its biodiversity. In 2015, a group of
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C.E.; Lavaleye, Marc S.S.; Robert, Katleen; Stewart, Heather; Van Rooij, David; White, Martin A.; Wilson, Annette M. (2016).
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studied the canyon for five weeks. During the studies, they found abundant forms of deep-water life, such as
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also studied that layers with high concentrations of suspended particles in the canyon, which called
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Dorschel, Boris; Wheeler, Andrew J.; Monteys, Xavier; Verbruggen, Koen (2010).
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submarine canyon
Ireland
Celtic Sea
Atlantic Ocean
scientists
NERC
National Oceanography Centre
RRS James Cook
blue sharks
swordfishes
corals
clams
oysters
NIOZ
nepheloid layers
Porcupine Seabight
"Irish Marine Scientists Explore Whittard Canyon Deep-Sea Submarine Canyon"
the original
Dorschel et al. 2010
Amaro et al. 2016
"Cliffs, clams and coral reefs: Looking below the sea's surface"
Natural Environment Research Council
"The role of Whittard Canyon in particle dispersal and retention"
"The Whittard Canyon – A case study of submarine canyon processes"
Bibcode
2016PrOce.146...38A
doi
10.1016/j.pocean.2016.06.003
ISBN

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