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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