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Science 5 May 1967:
Vol. 156. no. 3775, pp. 638 - 640
DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3775.638
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Zonation of Uplifted Pleistocene Coral Reefs on Barbados, West Indies

Kenneth J. Mesolella 1

1 Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912

The coral species composition of uplifted Pleistocene reefs on Barbados is very similar to Recent West Indian reefs. Acropora palmata, Acropora cervicornis, and Montastrea annularis are qtuantitatively the most important of the coral species.


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