[Coral-List] Coral Surface Area

Tue Apr 8 15:25:19 EDT 2008

Tyler,

You can treat the mound as a spheroid and halve the volume or SA  
results.

You can find equations at e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheroid

Cheers,
Stuart

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