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The Rockall and Porcupine Basins, west of Ireland (Fig. 1), feature probably some of the world’s most spectacular carbonate mound provinces (Croker and 0’Loughlin 1998). In addition to the cluster of large surface mounds in the Porcupine Basin described by (1994) and consequently referred to as “Hovland” mounds, two additional provinces have been unveiled in this basin by 1997 cruises of the RV Belgica and Professor Logachev (Henriet et al 1998; Ivanov et al. 1998): a large crescent of buried mounds — the “Magellan mounds” — north of the Hovland province, and an elongated cluster of partly buried mounds on the eastern slope of the Porcupine Basin: the “Belgicamounds” (Fig. 1).
Location of the mound provinces in the Porcupine Basin (shaded areas)
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Henriet, J.P., van Rooij, D., Huvenne, V., de Mol, B., Guidard, S. (2003). Mounds and Sediment Drift in the Porcupine Basin, West of Ireland. In: Mienert, J., Weaver, P. (eds) European Margin Sediment Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55846-7_35
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