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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 2 Algae, Coralline
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    Chapter 3 Antecedent Platforms
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    Chapter 4 Atolls
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    Chapter 5 Bioerosion
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    Chapter 6 Coral Cay Classification and Evolution
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    Chapter 7 Climate Change and Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 8 Plate Tectonics
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    Chapter 9 Corals: Biology, Skeletal Deposition, and Reef-Building
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    Chapter 10 Corals: Environmental Controls on Growth
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    Chapter 12 Diagenesis
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    Chapter 13 Eastern Caribbean Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 14 Emerged Reefs
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    Chapter 15 Fringing Reefs
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    Chapter 16 General Evolution of Carbonate Reefs
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    Chapter 17 Glacial Control Hypothesis
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    Chapter 18 Halimeda Bioherms
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    Chapter 19 Nutrient Pollution/Eutrophication
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    Chapter 20 Paleoclimate from Corals
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    Chapter 21 Remote Sensing
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    Chapter 22 Sclerochronology
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    Chapter 23 Sea Level Change and Its Effect on Reef Growth
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    Chapter 24 Sea-level Indicators
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    Chapter 25 Impacts of Sediment on Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 26 Sediment Dynamics
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    Chapter 27 Stable Isotopes and Trace Elements
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    Chapter 28 Submarine Lithification
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    Chapter 29 Subsidence Hypothesis of Reef Development
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    Chapter 30 Tsunami
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    Chapter 31 Turbid-Zone and Terrigenous Sediment-Influenced Reefs
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    Chapter 32 Waves and Wave-Driven Currents
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    Chapter 33 Geomorphic Zonation
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    Chapter 34 Adaptation
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    Chapter 35 Octocorallia
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    Chapter 36 Algae-Macro
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    Chapter 37 Mass Extinctions, Anoxic Events and Ocean Acidification
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    Chapter 38 Western Atlantic/Caribbean, Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 39 Atoll Islands (Motu)
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    Chapter 40 AUVs (ROVs)
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    Chapter 41 Back-Stepping
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    Chapter 42 Bahamas
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    Chapter 43 Barrier Reef (Ribbon Reef)
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    Chapter 44 Beach Rock
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    Chapter 45 Belize Barrier and Atoll Reefs
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    Chapter 46 Bermuda
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    Chapter 47 Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
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    Chapter 48 Binding Organisms
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    Chapter 49 Bioturbation
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    Chapter 50 Brazil, Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 51 Bryozoa
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    Chapter 52 Carbon Fluxes of Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 53 Carbonate Budgets and Reef Framework Accumulation
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    Chapter 54 Reef Drilling
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    Chapter 55 Climate Change: Impact of Sea Level Rise on Reef Flat Zonation and Productivity
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    Chapter 56 Climate Change: Impact On Coral Reef Coasts
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    Chapter 57 Climate Change: Increasing Storm Activity
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    Chapter 58 Cocos (Keeling) Islands
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    Chapter 59 Coral Cays – Geohydrology
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    Chapter 60 Cay Formation
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    Chapter 61 Soils of Low Elevation Coral Structures
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    Chapter 62 Coral Cays, Vegetational Succession
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    Chapter 63 Coral Reef, Definition
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    Chapter 64 Coral Reefs of India
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    Chapter 66 Darwin Point
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    Chapter 67 Darwin, Charles (1809–1882)
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    Chapter 68 Cold-Water Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 69 Dolomitization
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    Chapter 70 Earthquakes and Emergence or Submergence of Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 71 East Indies Triangle of Biodiversity
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    Chapter 72 Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 73 Eco-Morphodynamics
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    Chapter 74 El Niño, La Niña, and ENSO
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    Chapter 75 Electron Spin Resonance Dating (ESR)
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    Chapter 76 Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands
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    Chapter 77 Engineering on Coral Reefs with Emphasis on Pacific Reefs
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    Chapter 78 Scleractinia, Evolution and Taxonomy
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    Chapter 79 Florida Keys
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    Chapter 80 Foraminifera
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    Chapter 81 Fossil Coralline Algae
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    Chapter 82 Fringing Reef Circulation
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    Chapter 83 Funafuti Atoll
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    Chapter 84 West Indian Coral Reef Classification
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    Chapter 86 Glacio-Hydro Isostasy
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    Chapter 87 Global Ocean Circulation and Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 88 Great Barrier Reef: Origin, Evolution, and Modern Development
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    Chapter 89 Great Barrier Reef Committee
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    Chapter 90 Reef Classification, Response To Sea Level Rise
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    Chapter 91 Mariana Islands, Coral Reef Geology
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    Chapter 92 Halimeda
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    Chapter 93 Hawaiian Emperor Volcanic Chain and Coral Reef History
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    Chapter 94 Historical Ecology of Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 95 Holocene High Energy Window
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    Chapter 96 Indian Ocean Reefs
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    Chapter 97 Indonesian Reefs
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    Chapter 98 Infrastructure and Reef Islands
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    Chapter 99 Internal Circulation
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    Chapter 102 Lagoon Circulation
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    Chapter 103 Last Glacial Interstadials
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    Chapter 104 Last Glacial Lowstand and Shelf Exposure
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    Chapter 105 Last Interglacial and Reef Development
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    Chapter 106 Low Wooded Islands
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    Chapter 107 Maldives
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    Chapter 108 Mangroves
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    Chapter 110 Micrite
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    Chapter 111 Microatoll
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    Chapter 112 Reefal Microbial Crusts
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    Chapter 113 Mid Holocene
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    Chapter 114 Midway Atoll (Hawaiian Archipelago)
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    Chapter 115 Mining/Quarrying of Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 116 Mururoa Atoll
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    Chapter 117 New Caledonia
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    Chapter 118 Ocean Acidification, Effects on Calcification
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    Chapter 120 Oceanic Hotspots
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    Chapter 121 Oil and Gas Reservoirs and Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 122 Pacific Coral Reefs: An Introduction
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    Chapter 123 Persian/Arabian Gulf Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 124 Phosphatic Cay Sandstone
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    Chapter 125 Poleward Extension of Reefs
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    Chapter 126 Postglacial Trangression
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    Chapter 127 Radiocarbon (14C): Dating and Corals
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    Chapter 128 Recent Sea Level Trends
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    Chapter 129 Red Sea And Gulf Of Aqaba
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    Chapter 131 Reef Classification by Fairbridge (1950)
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    Chapter 132 Reef Classification by Hopley (1982)
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    Chapter 133 Reef Classification by Maxwell (1968)
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    Chapter 134 Conservation and Marine Protection Areas
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    Chapter 135 Reef Flats
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    Chapter 136 Reefal Sediments
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    Chapter 137 Reef Front Wave Energy
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    Chapter 138 Reef Interconnectivity/Larval Dispersal
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    Chapter 140 Reef Restoration
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    Chapter 141 Reef Topographic Complexity
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    Chapter 142 Reef Structure
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    Chapter 143 River Plumes and Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 144 Royal Society of London
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    Chapter 145 Ryukyu Islands
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    Chapter 146 Seagrasses
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    Chapter 147 Sediment Durability
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    Chapter 148 Sediments, Properties
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    Chapter 149 Seismic Reflection
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    Chapter 150 Shingle Ridges
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    Chapter 151 Solution Processes/Reef Erosion
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    Chapter 152 Stromatolites
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    Chapter 153 Submerged Reefs
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    Chapter 154 Swathe Mapping
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    Chapter 155 Tahiti/Society Islands
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    Chapter 156 Taphonomy
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    Chapter 157 Temperature Change: Bleaching
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    Chapter 158 Tethys Ocean
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    Chapter 159 Tropical Cyclone/Hurricane
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    Chapter 160 Upwelling and Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 161 Uranium Series Dating
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    Chapter 162 Vanuatu
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    Chapter 163 Volcanic Loading and Isostasy
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    Chapter 164 Wave Shoaling and Refraction
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    Chapter 165 Wave Set-Up
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    Chapter 168 Ecomorphology
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    Chapter 169 Acanthaster Planci
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    Chapter 170 Accommodation Space
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    Chapter 171 Agassiz, Alexander (1835–1910)
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    Chapter 172 Airborne Dust Impacts
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    Chapter 173 Algae, Blue-Green Boring
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    Chapter 174 Algae, Turf
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    Chapter 175 Algal Rims
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    Chapter 179 Aragonite
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    Chapter 180 Microbes
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    Chapter 181 Bafflestone
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    Chapter 183 Banks, Joseph (1743–1820)
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    Chapter 184 Barbados
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    Chapter 185 Bassett Edges
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    Chapter 186 Bindstone
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    Chapter 187 Bioherms and Biostromes
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    Chapter 189 Blowholes
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    Chapter 190 Blue Hole
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    Chapter 191 Boat Channel
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    Chapter 192 Boulder Beaches
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    Chapter 193 Boulder Zone/Ramparts
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    Chapter 194 Calcite
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    Chapter 195 Calcrete/Caliche
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    Chapter 196 Devonian Reef Complexes of the Canning Basin
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    Chapter 197 Carboniferous Reefs
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    Chapter 198 Chamisso, Adelbert Von (1781–1838)
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    Chapter 201 Conglomerates
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    Chapter 202 Cook, James (1728–1779)
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    Chapter 203 Core Plugs
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    Chapter 204 Daly, Reginald Aldworth (1871–1957)
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    Chapter 205 Dana, James Dwight (1813–1895)
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    Chapter 206 David, Tannant Edgeworth (1858–1934)
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    Chapter 207 Davis, William Morris (1850–1934)
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    Chapter 209 Double and Triple Reef Fronts
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    Chapter 210 Echinodermata
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    Chapter 211 Electro Mineral Accretion
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    Chapter 212 Eolianite
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    Chapter 213 Faroes Reefs
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    Chapter 214 Floatstone
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    Chapter 215 FORAM Index
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    Chapter 216 Forereef/Reef Front
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    Chapter 217 Framestone
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    Chapter 218 Banks Island: Frasnian (Late Devonian) Reefs In Northwestern Arctic Canada
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    Chapter 219 Gardiner, John Stanley (1872–1946)
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    Chapter 220 Submarine Groundwater Discharge
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    Chapter 221 Heavy Metal Accumulation in Scleractinian Corals
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    Chapter 222 Holocene Reefs: Thickness and Characteristics
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    Chapter 223 Huon Peninsula, P.N.G.
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    Chapter 224 Lagoons
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    Chapter 226 Lyell, Charles (1797–1875)
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    Chapter 227 MacNeil, F. Stearns (1909–1983)
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    Chapter 228 Makatea
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    Chapter 229 Mangrove Islands
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    Chapter 230 Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough (1868–1922)
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    Chapter 231 Megablocks
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    Chapter 232 Meltwater Pulses
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    Chapter 233 Moating
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    Chapter 234 Moats
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    Chapter 235 Molluscs
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    Chapter 236 Notch and Visor
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    Chapter 237 Ooids
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    Chapter 238 Packstone
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    Chapter 239 Palaeosols
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    Chapter 240 Patch Reefs: Lidar Morphometric Analysis
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    Chapter 241 Permian Capitan Reef System
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    Chapter 242 Peysonnell, Jean-Andre (1694–1759)
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    Chapter 243 Platforms (Cemented)
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    Chapter 244 Porosity Variability In Limestone Sequences
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    Chapter 245 Quoy, Jean Rene (1790–1869) and Gaimard, Joseph Paul (1796–1858)
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    Chapter 246 Reef Balls
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    Chapter 247 Residence Time
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    Chapter 248 Reticulated Reefs
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    Chapter 249 Rhodoliths
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    Chapter 250 Rudstone
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    Chapter 252 Solution Unconformities
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    Chapter 253 Spiculite
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    Chapter 254 Sponges
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    Chapter 255 Spurs and Grooves
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    Chapter 256 Steers, James Alfred (1899 – 1987)
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    Chapter 257 Stoddart, David Ross (1937–)
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    Chapter 258 Symbiosis
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    Chapter 259 Tidal Jets
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    Chapter 261 Unvegetated Cays
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    Chapter 262 Vaughan, Thomas Wayland (1870–1952)
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    Chapter 263 Vegetated Cays
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    Chapter 264 Volcanic Disturbances and Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 265 Wackestone
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    Chapter 266 Walther, Johannes (1860–1937)
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    Chapter 268 Seismic Refraction
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    Chapter 269 Classification of Carbonates
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    Chapter 270 Reef Typology
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    Chapter 271 Acropora
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    Chapter 272 Eastern Indian Ocean – Northern Sector
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    Chapter 273 Porites
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    Chapter 274 Reefs at Risk: Map-Based Analyses of Threats to Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 275 Density and Porosity : Influence on Reef Accretion Rates
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    Chapter 276 Tidal Effects on Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 277 Hydrodynamics of Coral Reef Systems
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    Chapter 278 Intrinsic And Extrinsic Drivers On Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 279 Underwater Landscape Mosaics
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    Chapter 282 Aerial Photography of Coral Reefs
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Chapter title
Pacific Coral Reefs: An Introduction
Chapter number 122
Book title
Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2011
DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2639-2_122
Book ISBNs
978-9-04-812638-5, 978-9-04-812639-2
Authors

James E. Maragos, Gareth J. Williams, Maragos, James E., Williams, Gareth J.

Editors

David Hopley

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Researcher 5 24%
Student > Master 4 19%
Student > Bachelor 3 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 14%
Unspecified 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 3 14%
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 19%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 5%
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Other 2 10%
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