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Carbonate Reefs and Build-ups, Lecture 2

Quaternary reef limestones, Aruba, Netherlands Antilles. Image: Roger Suthren

Introduction.

This page provides a series of links to web sites dealing with modern reefs. Work through these sites, making notes as you go.

Reef-building Organisms

• Introduction to corals
• Introduction to scleractinian corals
• Biology of scleractinian corals
• Introduction to red algae
• Coralline red algae - images

Modern Reefs

• Coral reefs of the World (NOAA)
• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
• Mangroves
• Hawai'i Coral Reef Network
• The Barrier Reef on Ambergris Caye, Belize
• Global Coral Reef Alliance
  
  
• Satellite Images:
  • Canton Atoll, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Ocean
  • Atolls & Fringing Reefs, Society Islands, Pacific Ocean
  • Great Barrier Reef, Australia
    
    

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