Sea levels rising and falling over hundreds of thousands of years may have helped build the oceanic structures ...

Even with the nutrition provided by zooxanthallae, the process of building ... the hypothesis of reef formation first described by Darwin over a hundred years earlier. Coral reefs can be separated ...

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Coral reefs are ... If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable aragonite and precipitates calcite. This process converts the reef into ...

A report released by the Ministry of Natural Resources on Friday indicates that the coverage areas of reef-building corals on ...

Along the way, Darwin hatched new ideas about the formation of reefs — including the shimmering island rings of coral known as atolls ... dissolve the rocks. This process is known as ...