Factoid/2018/08/28
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Deep Sea Corals Discovered off South Carolina
- "Some 160 miles off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, a half mile below the ocean surface, is a dense forest of cold water corals. And based on their observations and recent sonar mapping of the ocean floor, researchers estimate that the reef runs for at least 85 linear miles...The live corals are growing atop giant mounds of rubble, the skeletal remains of coral colonies that have been growing in the same area for millennia. Cordes expects these Atlantic coral structures could be hundreds of thousands of years old." - Excerpt from Huffington Post. These findings could play a critical role in preventing new offshore drilling in the Atlantic.
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