Styles of Reef Accretion Along a Steep, Shelf-edge Reef, St Croix, US Virgin Islands
Hubbard DK, Burke RB, Gill IP. 1986. Styles of Reef Accretion Along a Steep, Shelf-edge Reef, St Croix, US Virgin Islands. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. 56(6):848-861
Used horizontal cores and carbon dating to determine the history of reef formation in the Salt River submarine canyon (on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands). Includes diagrams of the cores (showing the species of coral or sand or rubble or coralline algae). Differentiates types of accretion (calcification, net framework production, and reef accretion).
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Hubbard, Dennis; Burke, Randolph; Gill, Ivan
- Units
- SARI
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Geomorphology, Isotopic Dating, Physical Sciences, reef formation, Salt River, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands