This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent
coral reefs (1.8 million to a few centuries old) gained since the
eighties, and introduces geologists, oceanographers and
environmentalists to sedimentological and paleoecological studies
of an ecosystem encompassing some of the world's richest
biodiversity. Scleractinian reefs first appeared about 300 million
years ago. Today coral reef systems provide some of the most
sensitive gauges of environmental change, expressing the complex
interplay of chemical, physical, geological and biological factors.
The topics covered will include the evolutionary history of reef
systems and some of the main reef builders since the Cenozoic, the
effects of biological and environmental forces on the zonation of
reef systems and the distribution of reef organisms and on reef
community dynamics through time, changes in the geometry, anatomy
and stratigraphy of reef bodies and systems in relation to changes
in sea level and tectonics, the distribution patterns of
sedimentary (framework or detrital) facies in relation to those of
biological communities, the modes and rates of reef accretion
(progradation, aggradation versus backstepping; coral growth versus
reef growth), the hydrodynamic forces controlling water circulation
through reef structures and their relationship to early diagenetic
processes, the major diagenetic processes affecting reef bodies
through time (replacement and diddolution, dolomitization,
phosphatogenesis), and the record of climate change by both
individual coral colonies and reef systems over the
Quaternary.
* state-of-the-art knowledge from Recent corals reefs
* introduction to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of
an ecosystems encompassing some of the world's richest
biodiversity.
* authors are internationally regarded authorities on the
subject
* trustworthy information
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