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An early Holocene reef in the western Atlantic: submersible investigations of a deep relict reef off the west coast of Barbados, W. I.
| Title: | An early Holocene reef in the western Atlantic: submersible investigations of a deep relict reef off the west coast of Barbados, W. I. |
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| Name(s): |
Macintyre, I. G., creator Rutzler, K., creator Norris, James N., creator Smith, K. P., creator Cairns, S. D., creator Bucher, K. E., creator Steneck, R. S., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1991 | |
| Publisher: | Springer | |
| Extent: | 9 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 3333188 (digitool), FADT3333188 (IID), fau:6273 (fedora), 10.1007/BF00572177 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
Submersible observations and collections reveal that a probable relict reef off the west coast of Barbados has a rich cover of sponges, along with algae and scattered corals, on a substrate of algal nodules in a muddy-sand matrix. The collections provide new data on the distributions of these fauna. This relict reef is about 20 km long, has a relief of up to 10 m, and is established at a depth of 80 m. Relict shallow-water features in other areas at similar depths along with data from core holes drilled off the south coast of Barbados suggest that this reef was probably established about 12,000 years ago and existed for no more than 2,000 years, during the Holocene sea-level transgression. This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: Macintyre, I. G., Rutzler, K., Norris, J. N., Smith, K. P., Cairns, S. D., Bucher, K. E., & Steneck R. S. (1991). An early Holocene reef in the western Atlantic: submersible investigations of a deep relict reef off the west coast of Barbados, W. I. Coral Reefs, 10(3), 167-174. 10.1007/BF00572177 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #844. |
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| Subject(s): |
Reefs Relicts (Biology) Holocene Epoch Barbados Submersibles |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3333188 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00572177 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1991 Springer | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
