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Postglacial Fringing-Reef to Barrier-Reef conversion on Tahiti links Darwin's reef types
In 1842 Charles Darwin claimed that vertical growth on a subsiding foundation caused fringing reefs to transform into barrier reefs then atolls. Yet historically no transition between reef types has been discovered and they are widely considered to develop independently from antecedent foundations d...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4028904/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24845540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep04997 |