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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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Autores principales: Blanchon, Paul, Granados-Corea, Marian, Abbey, Elizabeth, Braga, Juan C., Braithwaite, Colin, Kennedy, David M., Spencer, Tom, Webster, Jody M., Woodroffe, Colin D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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