Author: Jacques-Yves CousteauPublisher:
ISBN: 9780891040897
Category : Coral reef ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Life and death in a coral sea
Author: Jacques-Yves CousteauPublisher:
ISBN: 9780891040897
Category : Coral reef ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Travels, Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant
Author: Thomas ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Red Sea Coral Reefs
Author: Gunnar BemertPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317848993
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
First published in 1981. The Red Sea is a distinctive and unique tropical sea, and the only enclosed coral sea in the world. This book are the impressions and images from the author who has been a professional diver and photographer since 1975. working on the east coast of the Red Sea. He shares his exciting and fantastic times in Saudi Arabia, maligning that the Red Sea remains an unparalleled source of surprises, entertainment, and beauty.
Life and Death in a Coral Sea
Author: Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe DiolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Life and Death Of Coral Reefs
Author: Charles BirkelandPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780412035418
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Illustrated throughout, this book presents what is known about factors that "shift the balance" between accretion and erosion, recruitment and mortality, stony corals and filamentous algae, recovery and degradation - the life and death of coral reefs.
Life and Death of Coral Reefs
Author: Charles BirkelandPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781461559955
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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).
The Coral Seas
Author: Hans W. FrickePublisher: Brassey's
ISBN: 9780500011041
Category : Coral reef animals
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Report on the Stony Corals from the Maldive Archipelago
Author: C. S. Gopinadha PillaiPublisher: E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung
ISBN: 9788432088506
Category : Cnidaria
Languages : en
Pages : 83
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