Discovery of an early Holocene relict reef and shoreline off Grand Cayman

Ten short cores drilled on the eastern shelf off Grand Cayman have revealed the presence of a relict, early Holocene, breakwater reef at a depth of 21 m below msl. Cores from the crest of the relict reef consist not of in-situ coral framework but of cobbles of Acropora palmata in a matrix of skeleta...

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Main Author: P. Blanchon
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.606.7684
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