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MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

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Fossil cold-water corals on top of a coral mound off the coast of Namibia, which were first discovered during expedition M122 with the research vessel Meteor. Investigations on the samples from the top of the coral mounds provided to determine when cold-water corals died out.

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MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

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