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Coral Mortality and African Dust Photo Gallery

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Carysfort Reef Star Coral: 1960-2001

Grecian Rocks
star coral
11 photos		 brain coral
3 photos		 star coral
3 photos		 star coral
5 photos
   
Carysfort Reef
star coral
5 photos		 brain coral
6 photos

Click on any photo to view a full-screen version [~870x570, 95-170 K].

1960 photo
1960		 1971 photo
1971
1986 photo
1986
1998 photo
1998		 2001 photo
2001
At right is a photograph of a large star coral (Montastrea annularis) taken in 1960. Arrows show spikes that were part of a growth-rate experiment. By 1998, only small portions of the coral were alive.

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