Development and demise of a fringing coral reef during Holocene environmental change, eastern Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

Development and demise of a fringing coral reef during Holocene environmental change, eastern Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia

Reefs lining the western Exmouth Gulf, located at the northern limit of the 300 km long Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia, represent modern incipient coral reefs and veneers of non-reef-building coral/algal communities on exposed Pleistocene or 'give-up' Holocene reef surfaces. Acquisitio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Twiggs, Emily, Collins, Lindsay
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Science BV 2010
Subjects:
Ningaloo Reef
Pleistocene foundations
Holocene reef growth
Exmouth Gulf
geomorphology
climate change
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3945

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3945

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