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A reef in time : the Great Barrier Reef from beginning to end / J.E.N. Veron.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Veron, J. E. N. (John Edward Norwood)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coral reef conservation.
- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).
- Climatic changes--Australia--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).
- Climatic changes.
- Australia.
- Coral reef conservation--Australia--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).
- Environmental responsibility--Australia--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).
- Environmental responsibility.
- Environmental protection--Australia--Great Barrier Reef (Qld.).
- Environmental protection.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 289 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- The big picture
- The Great Barrier Reef : an overview
- Corals and reefs : controls and processes
- The state of the Great Barrier Reef
- Mass extinctions and reef gaps
- Messages from deep time
- The Cenozoic roller-coaster
- Australia adrift
- The ice ages
- The last glacial cycle
- Many origins
- Stone age utopia
- An enhanced greenhouse world
- Temperature and mass bleaching
- Ocean acidity and coralline osteoporosis
- The ocean's canary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674026799
- 9780674026797
- OCLC:
- 86090507
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