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Coral Mortality and African Dust

Introduction:
Dust Hypothesis
Sampling Sites
Summary of Findings
Conclusions
Online Movie:
Mini-Documentary
Satellite Images
dust crossing the Atlantic
Photo Gallery
four decades of change
Significant Mortality Events:
History
Dust Record
Barbados
Diadema Die-off
Algal Infestation
Black Band Disease
Coral Bleaching
Print Products:
OFR 2003-028
Printable Poster
OFR 2001-246 You are at Mortality Events History
References
Contacts

African Dust Causes Widespread Environmental Distress

USGS Open File Report 01-246 Printable Version

Printable Information Sheet: click on the page below to open the Sheet in Acrobat Reader® [3.1 MB PDF]
Thumbnail image of Open File Report
produced April, 2000

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"African Dust Causes Widespread Environmental Distress" is a four-page full-color discussion of African dust and some of its possible impacts across the Atlantic. This Open File Report contains much of the material presented in the Significant Mortality Events section of this website, along with additional information about African dust and its potential effects.

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