Quaternary Coral Reef Systems (Developments in Marine Geology): History, development processes and controlling factors: Volume 5

by Lucien Montaggioni (Author), Colin J. R. Braithwaite (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $109.52

  Scleractinian reefs first appeared about 300 million years ago. This title presents knowledge from coral reefs gained since the eighties. It introduces geologists, oceanographers and environmentalists to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of an ecosystem encompassing some of the world's richest biodiversity.