Magnesium content within the skeletal architecture of the coral Montastraea faveolata: Locations of brucite precipitation and implications to fine-scale data fluctuations

Coral Reefs

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 243-253

  Buster, Noreen A ^a   Holmes, Charles W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brucite; Coral skeleton; Endolithic algae; Laser ablation ICP MS; Magnesium; Scanning electron microscope

Indexed keywords

CORAL; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; MAGNESIUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKELETON;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA;

EID: 33646340572     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-006-0092-y     Document Type: Article

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