Charles Sheppard, “Coral Reefs: Science and Survival” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Is There Any Environmental Degradation?
Coral can grow in the order of millimeters a year under ideal circumstances. A branching form can extend each of the fingers by ruftly ten centimeters a year. But they are their limestone, which they've deposited, is more porous. This got more holes, more more kind of space. It u you could actually dig your thumb nail into it, sort of thing. All the coral islands world are totally dependent on that for their existence.
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