“…It was documented that the mounds were built up as carbonate structures, capped with living deep-water corals. However, it seems that the reason why they build up where they do, may be more complex than previously suspected, even despite drilling campaigns where one of the now dead mounds was sampled by drilling (Ferdelman et al, 2006;Hovland, 2008). Therefore, much more scientific multidisciplinary work is needed to be done before we know why and how they build up (Foucher et al, 2009).…”