Geology links

Reefs

 

• A virtual field trip to the reefs of the Jurassic Period
• Ancient Coral Reefs
• Atolls
• Coral microbialite environment in a Middle Miocene reef of Hungary
• Coral Reef Alliance
• Coral reef bioerosion in times of crises – the Late Triassic/ Early Jurassic example
• Coral Reef Maps of the World
• Coral Reef Research Foundation
• Decline of coral reefs during late Paleocene to early Eocene global warming
• Discovery of a Mississippian Reef in Turkey: The Upper Viséan Microbial-Sponge-Bryozoan-Coral Bioherm From Kongul Yayla (Taurides, S Turkey)
• Facies analysis, geometry and architecture of a Carnian carbonate platform: the Settsass/Richthofen reef system (Dolomites, Southern Alps, northern Italy)
• Frasnian reef evolution and palaeogeography, SE Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Australia
• Geologic Frame of Palaeozoic Reefs in Austria with Special Emphasis on Devonian Reef-architecture of the Graz Palaeozoic
• Geology and Biology of Coral Reefs
• Kimmeridgian-Valanginian reef corals from the Moesian Platform from Bulgaria
• Late Paleozoic reefs and their significance for tectonics and oil-gas exploration in the Hinggan-Inner Mongolia area
• Lower Badenian (Middle Miocene) coral patch reef at Grobie (southern slopes of the Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland), its origin, development and demise
• Munich-Stuttgart reef group page on Jurassic, Palaeozoic and other reefs
• New Sequence Perspective on the Devonian Reef Complex and the Frasnian-Famennian Boundary, Canning Basin, Australia
• Oldest Triassic Platform Margin Reef From The Alpine-Carpathian Region (Aggtelek, Ne Hungary): Platform Evolution, Reefal Biota And Biostratigraphic Framework
• Oxfordian Reef Architecture of the La Manga Formation, Neuquén Basin, Mendoza Province, Argentina
• Paleoecology and Sedimentology of Ancient Coral Reefs in the Dominican Republic
• Paleoecology of a Pliocene coral reef in Cyprus
• Permian Reef Complex (Delaware Basin) of West Texas
• Physics of coral reef systems in a shallow tidal embayment
• Reef Base
• Reef Check
• Reef coralgal assemblages as recorders of paleobathymetry and sea level changes in the Indo-Pacific province
• Reefal environments and sedimentary processes of the Anisian Karchowice Beds in Upper Silesia, southern Poland
• Reefnet, an Internet coral reef information service
• Reefs and Reef Limestones in Earth History
• Reefs of the Deep: The Biology and Geology of Cold-Water Coral Ecosystems
• Rise and Fall of Rudist Reefs
• Scogliere coralline
• Stratigraphy and geochronology of emergent fossil reef deposits of Western Australia
• Transition Between the Massive Reef-Backreef and Cyclic Lagoon Facies of the Dachstein Limestone in the Southern Part of the Dachstein Plateau, Northern Calcareous Alps, Upper Austria and Styria
• University of South Florida-Dept. of Marine Science, Reef Indicators Lab
• Upper Cretaceous 'Rudist Formations'
• Upper Jurassic Reefs from the Russian Western Caucasus: Implications for the Eastern Black Sea

Books about reefs


	Palaeozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations: Climatic and Evolutionary Controls The geological record contains a fascinating diversity of reefs and shell accumulations. As with many other biosedimentary structures, their facies characterization requires careful observation at outcrop and sample scale, and in thin-section to provide information about the global geometries, fabrics and textures respectively. This collection of papers encompasses the breadth of sedimentary geometries and facies displayed by Palaeozoic reefs, shell accumulations, and transitional composite deposits. The definition of reefs and shell concentrations has given rise to variations in nomenclature. The papers in this volume cover specific problems regarding the nomenclature and facies characterization of reefs, shell accumulations and transitional composite deposits. However, rather than attempt a complete revision of terms, the authors have touched on some of the important issues at this stage of development in the field: the main climatic, environmental and evolutionary factors that controlled the Palaeozoic development of shell accumulations and reefs.
	The History and Sedimentology of Ancient Reef Systems The chapters of this book contain contributions from an international group of specialists. They address some important themes in both modern and ancient reef systems. Some chapters contain `snapshots' of reefs of particular intervals, while others touch on relevant themes of both modern and ancient reefs - themes that weave their way through reefs of all ages. This book opens and sets the stage with an introduction to both modern and ancient reefs and reef ecosystems. This chapter is also intended as a basic introduction for students, general geologists, and professionals or others who may be unfamiliar with reefs and reef ecosystems. The chapter addresses the living coral reef ecosystem, stressing among other relevant factors, the importance of ecological and physical interactions between the organisms and their environment. The chapter also addresses mass extinction and provides a general overview of the history of reefs.
	Quaternary Coral Reef Systems, Volume 5: History, development processes and controlling factors This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.8 million to a few centuries old) gained since the eighties, and introduces geologists, oceanographers and environmentalists to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of an ecosystem encompassing some of the world's richest biodiversity. Scleractinian reefs first appeared about 300 million years ago. Today coral reef systems provide some of the most sensitive gauges of environmental change, expressing the complex interplay of chemical, physical, geological and biological factors. The topics covered will include the evolutionary history of reef systems and some of the main reef builders since the Cenozoic, the effects of biological and environmental forces on the zonation of reef systems and the distribution of reef organisms and on reef community dynamics through time, changes in the geometry, anatomy and stratigraphy of reef bodies and systems in relation to changes in sea level and tectonics, the distribution patterns of sedimentary (framework or detrital) facies in relation to those of biological communities, the modes and rates of reef accretion (progradation, aggradation versus backstepping; coral growth versus reef growth), the hydrodynamic forces controlling water circulation through reef structures and their relationship to early diagenetic processes, the major diagenetic processes affecting reef bodies through time (replacement and diddolution, dolomitization, phosphatogenesis), and the record of climate change by both individual coral colonies and reef systems over the Quaternary.
	Reefs and Carbonate Platforms in the Pacific and Indian Oceans This IAS Special Publication contains 17 of the papers presented at the IAS International Workshop on Reefs and Carbonate platforms in the Pacific and Indian oceans held in Sydney (July 1995). This is the first book to summarize the current state of knowledge about reefs and carbonate platforms in these oceans where there are a great diversity of carbonate systems in various tectonic settings. Papers concern both processes operating in reefs and carbonate platforms and case histories (platform and oceanic reef case histories). Case histories range from the Lower Cretaceous up to modern reefs and most concern outcomes from recent ODP legs in the Pacific. The volume covers a broad spectrum of disciplines related to carbonate geology: sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, reef ecology, and modelling.