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The Hatton-Rockall Basin and the Hatton Bank are the names given to the area of the designated Irish seabed furthest away from dry land. This area reaches all the way to the western slopes of the Iceland Basin. The whole area of the Hatton-Rockall Basin and the Hatton Bank represents the westward extension of the block of continental crust to which the Rockall Bank also belongs. It is therefore characterised by shallower water depths with even the deepest parts of the Hatton-Rockall Basin not reaching below 2,000 m water depth, considerably shallower than the Rockall Trough (Fig. 18.1). Due to its remote location, the area of the Hatton-Rockall Basin and the Hatton Bank has rarely been targeted by research cruises, however it was fully mapped by the INSS and PAD programmes. As a result of its remoteness, very little groundtruthing data is available for the morphological features in this area.
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Dorschel, B., Wheeler, A.J., Monteys, X., Verbruggen, K. (2010). Hatton-Rockall Basin & Hatton Bank. In: Atlas of the Deep-Water Seabed. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9376-1_18
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