[Coral-List] wikipedia, holocene temperatures
Eugene Shinn
eugeneshinn at mail.usf.edu
Wed May 28 11:21:31 EDT 2014
Yes Ian, Geologists are well aquainted with that Holocene temperature
curve. It explains why Acropora grew well at the Flower Gardens
Sanctuary about 6 thousand years ago. Note that there is a downward
spike at around 4,500 years ago. It may explain the 500 hundred year
absence of staghorn coral in the Keys that we documented in our Coral
Reefs article some time ago. We are still trying to figure out why more
than 90 percent of the outer reefs in the keys failed to accumulate much
over 3 ft during the 6,000 years the area has been underwater. The only
thick accumulations are the major reefs that have reached sea level and
usually are marked/named and/or have lighthouses on them. The thickest
Holocene reefs are landward of the outer reef line. Gene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png
Gene
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