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Science 5 August 1977:
Vol. 197. no. 4303, pp. 556 - 559
DOI: 10.1126/science.197.4303.556-a
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Calcium Carbonate Production of the Mare Incognitum, the Upper Windward Reef Slope, at Enewetak Atoll

S. V. SMITH 1 and J. T. HARRISON 1

1 Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Post Office Box 1346, Kaneohe 96744

Corals and algal pavement produce calcium carbonate more slowly on the windward reef slope of Enewetak Atoll than on the reef flat despite the high standing crop of reef-building organisms on the slope. The capacity of reefs to remain at or near sea level is therefore not determined primarily by growth on the seaward slope.

Submitted on December 20, 1976
Revised on March 14, 1977


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