Evolution of fringing reefs: Space and time constraints from the Gulf of Aqaba

Coral Reefs

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 165-172

  Shaked, Yonathan ^a,d   Lazar, Boaz ^a   Marco, Shmuel ^b   Stein, Mordechai ^a,c   Tchernov, Dan ^a,d   Agnon, Amotz ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Israel Geological Survey   (Israel)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Down faulting; Fringing reefs; Holocene; Reef structure

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AGE DETERMINATION; FOSSIL RECORD; FRINGING REEF; GROWTH RATE; HOLOCENE; REEF FORMATION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EILAT; EURASIA; GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; OCEANIC REGIONS; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SOUTHERN DISTRICT; WORLD;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 17044408794     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-004-0454-2     Document Type: Article

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