Barrier Reef Development

“Diagram suggesting the development of a barrier reef and an atoll, successively, from a fringing reef, by sinking. 1, Fringing reef, formed in shallow water; 2, barrier reef, developed from fringing reef after subsidence; 3, the atoll which succeeds the barrier reef.” -Salisbury, 1919

Keywords

oceanography, fringing reef, coral reef diagram, barrier reef development, atoll

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Hydrology, Coral Reefs

Source

Rollin D. Salisbury American Science Series - Advanced Course: Physiography (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1919)

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