Notes. On the Existence of a Coral Reef Regenerative Sediment
| dc.contributor.author | Di Salvo, Louis H. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-11-18T03:24:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-11-18T03:24:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1969-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Calcareous Detrial Sediment has been recovered from the interiors of semiconsolidated ramose non-living coral formations of several coral reef areas. While collecting invertebrates from Indian Ocean coral reefs during participation in the International Indian Ocean Expedition (1963), I was impressed by the general presence of a muddy sediment which was released into the water when the dead coral substratum was broken up. The presence of such a sediment seemed unusual in view of the normal clarity of the typically unproductive reef waters and the absence of land-derived sediments. At that time I began hypothesizing about the sediment dynamics and decomposer function in coral reef microenvironments. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Di Salvo LH. 1969. Notes. On the existence of a coral reef regenerative sediment. Pac Sci 23(1): 129. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0030-8870 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/3380 | |
| dc.language.iso | en-US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawai'i Press | |
| dc.title | Notes. On the Existence of a Coral Reef Regenerative Sediment | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |