Providencia Island: A Miocene Stratovolcano on the Lower Nicaraguan Rise, Western Caribbean—A Geological Enigma Resolved

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan L. Smith ◽  
M. John Roobol ◽  
Glen S. Mattioli ◽  
George E. Daly ◽  
Joan E. Fryxell
Keyword(s):  
Western Caribbean

Postnaupliar stages of a thaumatopsyllid copepod from a reef area of the western Caribbean Sea

Sarsia ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Suárez‐Morales ◽  
Edgar Tovar
Keyword(s):  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
Reef Area ◽  
Western Caribbean

Western Caribbean English Creoles

1985 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn G. Gilbert ◽  
John Holm
Keyword(s):  
Western Caribbean

scholarly journals LOS ARRECIFES DE LA ISLA DE SAN ANDRÉS (MAR CARIBE, COLOMBIA)

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörn Geister
Keyword(s):  
Wave Energy ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Reef Crest ◽  
Acropora Palmata ◽  
Reef Complex ◽  
Western Caribbean ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
San Andres

The windward reef complex NE and E of San Andrés Island is briefly described in terms of submarine topography, sediments and the distribution of corals and other benthonic organisms. The breaker zone of the San Andrés barrier and other exposed Western Caribbean reefs characteristically exhibits a profuse growth consisting almost exclusively of Millepora. In this respect they are different from most other described West Indian reef localities, where Acropora palmata is the dominating species in this part of the reef. The replacement of Acropora palmata by Millepora is interpreted as an adaptation of the reef crest community to high energy environments due to long swell prevailing at the Western end of the Caribbean Sea. A few short reef sections exposed to the maximum degree of wave energy show conspicuous algal ridges.

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