Coral Reefs, Present and Past, on the West Florida Shelf and Platform Margin

Coral Reefs of the World

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 127-173

  Hine, Albert C ^a   Halley, Robert B ^b   Locker, Stanley D ^a   Jarrett, Bret D ^a   Jaap, Walter C ^a   Mallinson, David J ^c   Ciembronowicz, Kate T ^b   Ogden, Nancy B ^d   Donahue, Brian T ^a   Naar, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Florida Institute of Oceanography   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral Reef; Outlier Reef; Reef Growth; Reef Tract; Stony Coral

Indexed keywords

EID: 85199431738     PISSN: 2213719X     EISSN: 22137203     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6847-8_4     Document Type: Chapter

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