1200 year paleoecological record of coral community development from the terrigenous inner shelf of the Great Barrier Reef

Geology ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 691 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.T. Perry ◽  
S.G. Smithers ◽  
S.E. Palmer ◽  
P. Larcombe ◽  
K.G. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Coral Community ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Inner Shelf

scholarly journals Coral community responses to declining water quality: Whitsunday Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Coral Reefs ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 923-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angus Thompson ◽  
Thomas Schroeder ◽  
Vittorio E. Brando ◽  
Britta Schaffelke
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Coral Community ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Community Responses

Wet season fine sediment dynamics on the inner shelf of the Great Barrier Reef

2008 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 755-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Wolanski ◽  
Katharina E. Fabricius ◽  
Timothy F. Cooper ◽  
Craig Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Fine Sediment ◽  
Sediment Dynamics ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Wet Season ◽  
Inner Shelf

Fine sediment budget on an inner-shelf coral-fringed island, Great Barrier Reef of Australia

2005 ◽  
Vol 65 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 153-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Wolanski ◽  
Katharina Fabricius ◽  
Simon Spagnol ◽  
Richard Brinkman
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Fine Sediment ◽  
Sediment Budget ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Inner Shelf

Stratigraphic control of the geochemistry of Holocene inner-shelf facies, Great Barrier Reef

1995 ◽  
Vol 129 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.A.K. Ward ◽  
P. Larcombe ◽  
C. Cuff
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Inner Shelf

Exposed limestones of the Northern Province of the Great Barrier Reef

1978 ◽  
Vol 291 (1378) ◽  
pp. 119-138 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Phosphate Rock ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
Coralline Algae ◽  
Northern Province ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Inner Shelf ◽  
Beach Rock

The exposed reef limestones occur principally on the inner-shelf reefs and can be separated into two groups — organically cemented (reef-rock) and inorganically cemented (beach-rock, rampart-rock, boulder-rock and phosphate-rock). No examples were found of exposed sub tidal reef framework; the reef-rock exposed is entirely of intertidal origin resulting from incipient encrustration by intertidal corals and coralline algae. Most of the beach-rock, rampart-rock and boulder-rock exposures are intertidal and many show vadose cement fabrics. The cements, chiefly aragonite needles in beach-rock and cryptocrystalline high Mg calcite in ram part and boulderrocks, are thought to be derived from seawater, though the environments of precipitation on windward sides of reefs where rampart-rocks form are quite different from those on the leeward sides where beach-rocks form. Phosphate-rock develops supratidally on the surface of some sand cays. Solutions derived from guano precipitate thin layers of phosphatic cement which bring about the centripetal replacement of carbonate grains.

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