Geomorphological model of coral reefs in the South China Sea

Zhao Huanting; Wang Lirong; Song Chaojing

doi:10.3969.issn.0253-4193.2014.09.013

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Zhao Huanting, Wang Lirong, Song Chaojing. Geomorphological model of coral reefs in the South China Sea[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2014, 36(9): 112-120. doi: 10.3969.issn.0253-4193.2014.09.013

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Zhao Huanting, Wang Lirong, Song Chaojing. Geomorphological model of coral reefs in the South China Sea[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2014, 36(9): 112-120. doi: 10.3969.issn.0253-4193.2014.09.013

Zhao Huanting, Wang Lirong, Song Chaojing. Geomorphological model of coral reefs in the South China Sea[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2014, 36(9): 112-120. doi: 10.3969.issn.0253-4193.2014.09.013

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Zhao Huanting, Wang Lirong, Song Chaojing. Geomorphological model of coral reefs in the South China Sea[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2014, 36(9): 112-120. doi: 10.3969.issn.0253-4193.2014.09.013

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Geomorphological model of coral reefs in the South China Sea

doi: 10.3969.issn.0253-4193.2014.09.013

Key Laboratory of Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China

Received Date: 2014-01-12
Rev Recd Date: 2014-02-16

Abstract

Abstract

Darwin firstly developed the coral reef morphological type and discussed its genetic mechanism, after he performed a global survey for coral reefs in tropical oceans during 1832 to 1836. The overall morphology of coral reef in his model looks like a wholly or partly truncated cone-shape, which is called as "the truncated taper" type in this paper. Subsequent several-generation researchers accepted his model. In recent time some workers have put forward another type for coral reefs after studying on geomorphologic characteristics of coral reefs in the South China Sea (SCS). In this new model, the outer reef slope takes on a concave curve and the reef’s shape is mushroom-like, and the model is called as mushroom-like type in this paper. Based on the measured data and references in geomorphology, we confirmed that the morphological type of coral reefs in the SCS is not the mushroom-like type but the truncated cone-shape, because the former one didn’t match the rules for the formation and evolution of coral reefs in nature.
- coral reef,
- geomorphic model,
- South China Sea

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