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Richardson Ridge

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 23, 2020
Entity authorityQ56284187 ↗
Source-derived summary

Richardson Ridge is a cold water coral reef in the Atlantic Ocean about 160 miles off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina and a half mile below the ocean's surface. Based on sonar mapping, it is estimated that the reef extends for at least 85 linear miles.

Discovery

The ridge was discovered in the summer of 2018 by a team led by Erik Cordes, a deep-sea ecologist and professor from Temple University.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Richardson, Ridge and Open-knowledge.
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This entry incorporates text from “Richardson Ridge” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.