[Coral-List] Book on "Deep-water coral reefs"

[Douglas Fenner]

But they are hundreds to thousands of feet deep.  There are no surface
ships with drafts that deep.  Not a hazard to navigation.
     People just like to name them "reefs" because coral reefs are so
famous.

On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 11:16 AM David Blakeway <
fathom5marineresearch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 'Deep water coral reefs' sounds ok to me. They are still hazards to
> navigation for those navigating them.
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 4:02 AM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>> Hovland, Martin.  2008.  Deep-water coral reefs"  Springer
>>
>> https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781402084614
>>
>> So no question about this terminology being in general use in the
>> scientific community.
>>
>> Chapter 1 Introduction
>>
>> "The term "coral reef" is traditionally used on large tropical
>> shallow-water formations, which represent dangers to navigation.  Even
>> though the deep-water coral accumulations do not represent dangerous
>> "reefs", as such, it has become a habit calling them "reefs."  A viable,
>> and perhaps more appropriate alternative would be to call them deep water
>> "bioherms", but, even so, the more common reef concept will be used in
>> this
>> book."
>>
>> Cheers, Doug
>>
>> --
>> Douglas Fenner
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