Low Florida coral calcification rates in the Plio-Pleistocene
In geological outcrops and drill cores from reef frameworks, the skeletons of scleractinian corals are usually leached and more or less completely transformed into sparry calcite because the highly porous skeletons formed of metastable aragonite (CaCO<sub>3</sub>) undergo rapid diageneti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2016-08-01
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| Series: | Biogeosciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/4513/2016/bg-13-4513-2016.pdf |