What's a reef?? Wells ref

[Alina M. Szmant]

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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