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Marine Life Associated with Offshore Drilling, Pipelines, and Platforms

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Glossary

Cold seep:

A location on the seafloor where natural fluids (gas and liquids) seep upward from the substratum, into the overlying water column.

Cold-water coral reef:

A mounded natural structure on the seafloor consisting of live animals and dead remains and sediments. The mound is partly constructed by colonizing corals that are not dependent on sunlight (i.e., ahermatypic corals) such as the most common species: Lophelia pertusa.

Fish sighting:

The underwater visual detection (recording) of fish (here, larger than 0.5 m in length) using submersible vehicles with lights and cameras, such as ROVs.

Iceberg ploughmark:

Up to 100 m wide and many kilometer long furrows in the seafloor, produced by the action of drifting grounded icebergs. Off Mid-and Northern-Norway and several other places such (relict) furrows remain from the last glaciation.

OHI:

The Offshore Hydrocarbon Industry (OHI) searches for natural accumulations (reservoirs) of oil and gas (hydrocarbons) and develops the...

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Hovland, M. (2012). Marine Life Associated with Offshore Drilling, Pipelines, and Platforms. In: LaMoreaux, J. (eds) Environmental Geology. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8787-0_478

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