Author: Jacques-Yves CousteauPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Korallen (Life and death in a coral sea, dt.) Bedrohte Welt d. Wunder
Author: Jacques-Yves CousteauKorallen (Life and death in the coral sea, dt.) Bedrohte Welt d. Wunder
Author: Jacques-Yves CousteauLife and death in a coral sea
Author: Jacques-Yves CousteauPublisher:
ISBN: 9780891040897
Category : Coral reef ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Life and Death in a Coral Sea
Author: Jacques Yves CousteauPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Life and Death in a Coral Sea
Author: Jacques-Yves CousteauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coral reef ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Life and Death in a Coral Sea
Author: Jacques CousteauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coral reef ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Life and Death in a Coral Sea
Author: Philippe DIOLELife and death in a coral sea. La vie et la mort des coraux
Author: Jacques CousteauPublisher:
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Category : Coral reef ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Life and Death of Coral Reefs
Author: Charles BirkelandPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781461377467
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Charles Birkeland Living coral is a thin veneer, measured in millimeters. Yet this thin film of living tissue has shaped the face of the Earth by creating limestone structures sometimes over 1,300 m thick from the surface down to its base on volcanic rock (Enewetak Atoll), or over 2,000 km long (Great Barrier Reef). About half the world's coastlines are in the tropics and about a third of the tropical coastlines are made of coral reef. Archipelagoes of hundreds of atolls such as the Marshalls, the Maldives, the Tuamotus, and most of the Carolines and Kiribati have been fonned by coral. In addition to enlarging high islands (such as the entire northern end of Guam) and extending and protecting coastlines, ancient biogenic reefs have fonned even larger areas on the present continents. Shallow living coral 2 reefs are estimated to presently cover over 600,000 km (Smith, 1978). Coral reefs are dynamic systems, producing limestone at the rate of 400-2,000 tons per hectare per year (Chave et aI. , 1972). The Great Barrier Reef dominates 2 230,000 km and has grown to this size in a geologically brief period of a few million years. Coral reefs influence the chemical balance of the world's oceans. Roughly half the calcium that enters the sea each year around the world, from the north to south poles, is taken up and temporarily bound into coral reefs (Smith, 1978).
Travels, Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant
Author: Thomas ShawPublisher:
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Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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