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

[David Blakeway]

'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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