Buch, Englisch, 1205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 3777 g
Buch, Englisch, 1205 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 3777 g
Reihe: Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series
ISBN: 978-90-481-2638-5
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
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Acanthaster planci. -Accommodation space. -Acropora. -Adaptation. -Aerial photography of coral reefs. -Agassiz, Alexander (1835-1910). -Airborne dust impacts. -Algae - blue green boring. -Algae - coralline. -Algae - macro. -Algal turfs on modern reefs. -Algal rims. -Antecedent platforms. -Aragonite. -Atoll islands - (motus). -Atolls. -AUVs (ROVs). -Back-stepping. -Bafflestone. -Bahamas. -Banks Island: Frasnian (Late Devonian) reefs in arctic Canada. -Banks, Joseph. -Barbados, Caribbean. -Barrier reef (ribbon reef). -Bassett edges. -Beach rock. -Belize barrier and atoll reefs. -Bermuda. -Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. -Binding organisms. -Bindstone. -Bioerosion. -Bioherms and Biostromes. -Bioturbation. -Blowholes. -Blue Hole. -Boat channel. -Boulder beaches. -Boulder zone/ramparts. -Brazil, Coral Reefs. -Bryozoa. -Calcite. -Calcrete/caliche. -Carbon fluxes of coral reefs. -Carbonate budgets and reef framework accumulation. -Carboniferous reefs. -Caribbean coral reefs, Southeastern. -Cay formation. -Chamisso, Albert Von (1781-1838). -Classification of carbonates. -Climate change - impact of sea level rise on reef flat zonation and productivity. -Climate change - increasing storm activity. -Climate change and coral reefs. -Cocos (Keeling) Islands. -Cold water coral reefs. -Conglomerates. -Cook, James (1728-1779). -Coral cay classification and evolution. -Coral cays - geohydrology. -Coral cays - vegetational succession. -Coral reef – definition. -Coral reefs of India. -Reefs and the biology of coral skeleton formation. -Corals - environmental controls on growth. -Core plugs. -Daly, Reginald Aldworth (1871-1957). -Dana, James Dwight (1813-1895). -Darwin Point. -Darwin, Charles (1809-1882). -David, Tannant Edgeworth (1858 - 1934). -Davis, William Morris (1850 - 1935). -Density and porosity - influence on reef accretion rates. -Devonian reef complexes of the Canning Basin. -Diagenesis. -Dolomotization. -Double and triple reef fronts. -Drilling. -Earthquakes and emergenceor submergence of coral reefs. -East Indies Triangle of biodiversity. -Eastern Indian Ocean - Northern Sector. -Eastern tropical coral Pacific reefs. -Echinodermata. -Eco-morphodynamics. -Ecomorphology. -El Niño/La Nina and ENSO. -Electro mineral accretion. -Electron spin resonance dating (ESR). -Emerged reefs. -Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands. -Engineering and coral reefs with emphasis on Pacific reefs. -Eolianite. -Faroes reefs. -Floatstone. -Florida Keys. -FORAM Index. -Foraminifera. -Fore reef/reef front. -Fossil coralline algae. -Framestone. -Fringing reef circulation. -Fringing reefs. -Funafuti Atoll. -Gardiner, John Stanley (1872-1946). -General evolution of carbonate reefs. -Glacial control hypothesis. -Glacio-hydro isostasy. -Global ocean circulation and coral reefs. -Great Barrier Reef. -Great Barrier Reef Committee. -Halimeda. -Halimeda bioherms. -Hawaiian Emperor Volcanic Chain and coral reef history. -Heavy metal accumulation in Scleractinian corals. -Historical ecology of coral reefs. -Holocene high energy window. -Holocene reefs thickness and characteristics. -Huon Peninsula, P.N.G. -Hydrodynamics of coral reefs systems. -Impacts of sediment on coral reefs. -Climate change – Impact on coral reef coasts. -Indian Ocean reefs. -Indonesian reefs. -Infrastructure and reef islands. -Internal circulation. -Intrinsic and extrinsic drivers on coral reefs. -Lagoon circulation. -Lagoons. -Last glacial interstadials. -Last glacial low stand and shelf exposure. -Last Interglacial and reef development. -Low wooded Islands. -Lyell, Charles (1797-1875). -MacNeil, Francis Stearns (1909-1983). -Makatea. -Maldives. -Mangrove Islands. -Mangroves. -Mariana Islands, Coral reef geology. -Mass extinctions, anoxic events and ocean acidification. -Mayor, Alfred Goldsborough (1868-1922). -Megablocks. -Melwater pulses. -Micrite. -Microatoll. -Microbes. -Mid Holocene. -Midway Atoll [Hawaiian Archipelago]. -Mining/quarrying of coral reefs. -Moating. -Moats. -Molluscs. -Mururoa Atoll. -New Caledonia. -Notch and visor. -Nutrient pollution/eutrophication. -Ocean acidification - effects on calcification. -Oceanic hotspots. -Octocorallia. -Oil and gas reservoirs and coral reefs. -Ooids. -Pacific coral reefs: an introduction. -Packstone. -Palaeoclimate from corals. -Palaeosols. -Patch reefs: lidar morphometric analysis. -Permian Capitan reef system. -Persian/Arabian Gulf, coral reefs. -Peysonnel, Jean-Andre (1694-1759). -Phosphatic cay sandstone. -Plate tectonics. -Platforms (cemented). -Poleward extension of reefs. -Porites. -Porosity variability in limestone sequences. -Postglacial transgression. -Quoy, Jean Rene (1790-1869) and Gaimard, Joseph Paul (1796-1858). -Radiocarbon (14C): dating and corals. -recent sea level trends. -Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba. -Reef balls. -Reef classification - Fairbridge (1950). -Reef classification - Hopley (1982). -Reef classification - Maxwell (1968). -Reef classification - response to sea level rise. -Reef conservation and marineprotected areas. -Reef flats. -Reefal sediments. -Reef front wave energy. -Reef interconnectivity/larval dispersal. -Reef restoration. -Reef structure. -Reef topographic complexity. -Reef typology. -Reefal microbial crusts. -Reefs at risk: map-based analyses of threats to coral reefs. -Remote sensing. -Residence time. -Reticulated reefs. -Rhodoliths. -River plumes and coral reefs. -Royal Society of London. -Rudstone. -Ryukyu Islands. -Scleractinia, evolution and taxonomy. -Sclerochronology. -Sea level changes and effects on reef growth. -Sea level indicators. -Seagrasses. -Sediment durability. -Sediment dynamics. -Sediments, properties. -Seismic reflection imaging of coral reefs. -Seismic refraction. -Shingle ridges. -Soils of low elevation coral structures. -Solution processes/reef erosion. -Solution unconformities. -Spiculite. -Sponges. -Spurs and grooves. -Stable isotopes and trace elements. -Steers, James Alfred (1899 - 1987). -Stoddart, David Rodd (1937). -Stromatolites. -Submarine Groundwater discharge. -Submarine lithification. -Submerged reefs. -Subsidence hypothesis of reef development. -Swathe mapping. -Symbiosis. -Tahiti/Society Islands. -Taphonomy. -Temperature change - bleaching. -Tethys Ocean. -Tidal effects on coral reefs. -Tidal jets. -Tropical cyclone/hurricane. -Tsunami. -Turbid-zone and terrigenous sediment-influenced reefs. -Underwater landscape mosaics. -Unvegetated cays. -Upwelling and coral reefs. -Uranium series dating. -Vanuatu. -Vaughan, Thomas Wayland (1870-1952). -Vegetated cays. -Volcanic disturbances and coral reefs. -Volcanic loading and isostasy. -Wackestone. -Walther, Johannes (1860-1937). -Wave-set up. -Wave shoaling and refraction. -Waves and wave-driven currents. -West Indian coral reef classification. -Western Atlantic/ Caribbean coral reefs. -Western Australian reefs. -Western Indian Ocean. -Yonge, Sir Maurice (1899-1986). -Zonation - geomorpohological. -Zooxanthellae.