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Postglacial fringing-reef to barrier-reef conversion on Tahiti links Darwin's reef types.
Paul Blanchon, Marian Granados-Corea, Elizabeth Abbey, Juan C Braga, Colin Braithwaite, David M Kennedy, Tom Spencer, Jody M Webster, Colin D Woodroffe
Nov 16, 2017
In 1842 Charles Darwin claimed that vertical growth on a subsiding foundation caused fringing reefs to transform into barrier reefs then atolls. Yet historically no transition between reef types has been discovered and they are...