[Coral-List] Impact of listing 66 coral species on coral research

[Eugene Shinn]

Dear Listers, I suppose coral biologists and environmentalists will 
never understand/learn what the geology of coral reefs is telling us. 
As pointed out many, many times, about 98 percent of the Florida Keys 
reefs are no less than a meter thick yet they have been underwater at 
least 6,000 years. Acropora has come and gone  several times during 
that period  long before all the current hysteria about 
Co2/warming/alkalinity shift began. Seems likely that if history were 
not repeating itself our reefs would be many meters thicker and 
contain a continuous record of all the species we worry about. Gene
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No Rocks, No Water, No Ecosystem (EAS)
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E. A. Shinn, Courtesy Professor
University of South Florida
College of Marine Science Room 221A
140 Seventh Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
<eshinn at marine.usf.edu>
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