Corals photographs

Figure 9. SEM photographs of polished, etched thin sections of modem Acropora palmata coral (after Edwards 1988). The scale bar in a is 100 microns. Visible in a are large macroscopic pores in the skeleton and well as the textnre of the very fine aragonite crystals, b is the same section as a bnt at higher magnification. The scale bar is 10 microns. Individnal aragonite crystal fibers are visible in b. ...

Fig. 2.5.5. A. Extensive coral cover of the outer reef flat, together with encrusting calcifying algae One Tree Reef. B. Coral/algal dominated reef flat, with sparse sand patches. One Tree Island in top left of photograph.

Figure 5. An example of photographs of quadrats. Red, yellow and blue lines show tabular, branching and massive corals, respectively.

Fig. 2.1 Top Aerial photograph of a section of the barrier reef of Chuuk Atoll, Marshall Islands (7°27 N, 151°51 E). Picture courtesy of the Coral Reef Research Foundation. Dark lines on the forereef indicate the presence of grooves. Bottom Generalized sketch of fore-reef and reef flat for Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands (11°30 N, 165°2573) adapted from Munk and Sargent (1954).

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