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A reef in time : the Great Barrier Reef from beginning to end

Veron, J. E. N. (John Edward Norwood)2008
Books
Imprint:
Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
Collation:
ix, 289 p.,[32] p. col. plates ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The big picture -- The Great Barrier Reef -- Corals and reefs -- The state of the Great Barrier Reef -- Mass extinctions and reef gaps -- Messages from deep time -- The Cenozoic roller-coaster -- Australia adrift -- The ice ages -- The last glacial cycle -- Many origins -- Stone age utopia -- An enhanced greenhouse world -- Temperature and mass bleaching -- Ocean acidity and coralline osteoporosis -- The ocean's canary.
ISBN:
97806740267970674026799
Dewey class:
578.778909943578.7789
Language:
English
BRN:
125638
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