An outline history of tropical organic reefs

Title Variants

Alternative: Tropical reefs

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2465

By

Newell, Norman D., 1909-2005

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y American Museum of Natural History [1971]

Notes

Title from caption.

"September 21, 1971."

"Organic reefs, especially shallow-water coral reefs of warm seas, are built by stable communities of organisms in a narrow adaptive zone of low stress. They have an extraordinarily good fossil record that may be applied to broad problems of evolution of the tropical marine biota and ancillary questions about past climates and changing distributions of land and sea over more than one-half billion years of earth history. This essay is an attempt at a synopsis through the eyes of a paleobiologist of some of the existing episodes in the history of the world's oceans and their organisms. The reef community is well suited for a leading role in this history"--P. [1].

Subjects

Animal communities , Coral reef ecology , Coral reefs and islands , Corals, Fossil , Paleontology , Reef ecology , Reefs , Tropics

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2465, 1971

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 45607523