Quaternary Coral Reef Systems

This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.8 million to a few centuries old) gained since the eighties, and introduces geologists, oceanographers and environmentalists to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of an ecosystem encompassing some of the world''s richest biodiversity. Scleractinian reefs first appeared about 300 million years ago. Today coral r...