Reef biology and geology – not just a matter of scale

Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 43-66

  Hubbard, Dennis K ^a  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion; Carbonate budget; Development; Holocene; Zonation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957701202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7249-5_3     Document Type: Chapter

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