Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Formations of Coral Reef
Coral reef can take a variety of forms, defined in following:
- Fringing Reef- directly attached to shore/borders with an intervening shallow channel/lagoon
- Great Barrier Reef- separated from a mainland/island shore by a deep lagoon
- Patch Reef- isolated,usually within a lagoon/embayment
- Apron Reef- resemble fringing reef
- Bank Reef- a linear/semi-circular in outline, also larger than a patch reef
- Ribbon Reef- long, narrow, somewhat winding reef, usually associated with an atoll lagoon
- Atoll Reef- extends all way round a lagoon without a central island
- Table Reef- isolated reef, approaching an atoll type, but without a lagoon
flew away
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