What's a reef?? Wells ref
Alina M. Szmant
szmanta at uncwil.edu
Thu Jan 17 12:49:28 EST 2002
For those limited to web searches of the literature as their source of
information: the source of Mike's definition is:
Wells, J. 1957. Coral reefs. Mem. Geol. Soc. Am., 67: 609-631.
It's still a great paper to read to start learning about coral reefs.
Alina Szmant
At 08:37 PM 01/16/2002 -0500, Mike Risk wrote:
> I
>
> The definition I quoted is from a GSA Volume titled "Ecology"-I recommend
> it, even though it was published prior to 1995. (I think it's Memoir #54.)
> In that same volume is a paper by Teichert, describing the cold and
> deep-water coral banks off Europe, and pointing out that these should not
> be
> called "reefs". See above. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure
> out
> that an uncemented pile of corals is no more wave-resistant than a pile of
> oyster shells. So this wheel was invented a long time ago.
>
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