1 The higher concentrations down here, again, had to do with hard 



2 substrate corals. Down here the higher concentrations have to do with a 



3 deposit feeding brittle star, Ophiomusium Tymani, which is common 



4 everywhere, it just happens to be more common in the canyon proper. 



5 Just to give you an idea of the animals that I have been talking 



6 about or some of the animals and to give you an idea of what the canyon 



7 environment looks like, I'll show you a couple of pictures of some of 



8 these animals. 



9 (Slide presentation) 



10 This is the depositional area in the canyon that I was talking 



11 about, this is directly in the axis of the canyon and here is Penatula 



12 achiliata [phonetic], the sea pen, as you can see it's not restricted to 



13 hard substrates. 



14 It has a bulbous base that extends down into the sediment and 



15 very, very high concentrations of this were found. It was frequently 



16 found in association with the two Ophiura species and in the same area. 



17 There aren't any on this particular slide. 



18 This is a picture of a cliff at the base of the west wall of 



19 Lydonia Canyon at about 400 meters. The whole cliff base is covered by 



20 these large worm tubes. 



21 Yes, Nancy, we have no idea what they are, just very, very large 



22 worm tubes just covering the whole cliff. Then you've got Penilla 



23 recida [phonetic], a large beautiful coral hanging down off the cliff 



24 here. 



25 Then, this is going down the canyon a little further. This was 



26 along the east wall of the canyon where you don't have as sheer a cliff, 



27 but here a lot of Unephthia flon'da, they're hard substrate corals and a 



28 lot of sponges and hydroids and lot of growth. 



29 This is in the same area you see there are a lot of sponges on the 



30 outcrops along the canyon axis. Slightly up on the wall, this is the 



31 sponge that I was talking about, this is Asbestopluma sponge, and this 



32 is common in the canyons. We do not find this anywhere on the slope, 



33 and I've looked in a lot of places on the slope. 



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