The largest type of coral reef, barrier reefs border the continental shelf like fringing reefs, but grow further out in a ...

Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science 104–5 (2012): 1–22 ... Pandolfi, John, Sean Connolly, Dustin Marshall, and Anne Cohen. "Projecting Coral Reef Futures Under Global Warming and Ocean Acidification ...

There is a kingdom of coral ... shelf that falls off, as if at the end of the world, into an abyss a mile and a quarter deep; and underwater mountains crowned, over the course of millennia, by reefs.

The contours of the continental shelf here encouraged the development ... Here the provinces of mangrove, sea grass, and coral reef are bound so tightly together by currents, tides, and mutual ...

The kikumeishimodoki, or zebra coral, lies about 20 meters off the coast of the Kamo district of Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture, which faces the Sea of Japan. The northern limit of the reef ...