Nature et fonctionnement des atolls des Tuamotu (Polynésie Française)

• Main Author: Rougerie, F
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Gauthier-Villars 1995
• Subjects: Antarctic; Pacific; Pinnacle; Sandy Islets; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00097/20857/18475.pdf; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00097/20857/

The 77 atolls of the Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia) constitute bio-geomorphological singularities in the oligotrophic oceanic field of the South Pacific. These open-ocean atoll reefs are locally overlaid by sandy islets (motu) and encompass lagoons with hydrological properties that are diffe...