Structure and development of detrital reef deposits in turbid nearshore environments, Inhaca Island, Mozambique

• Published in: Marine geology Vol. 214; no. 1; pp. 143 - 161
• Main Author: Perry, Christopher T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 30.01.2005
• Subjects: Acropora; Bivalvia; coral communities; coral rubble; floatstone; Marine; siliciclastic sediments; turbidity; ISW, Mozambique, Maputo, Inhaca I; ISW, Mozambique; turbidity; coral communities; floatstone; siliciclastic sediments; coral rubble

Coral communities are intermittently developed along the seaward margins of wide (up to 500 m) intertidal flats that fringe the western margins of Inhaca Island, southern Mozambique. The coral communities occur in an environment that can be considered as marginal for coral growth in the sense that t...