Reef-building coral skeletons as chemical pollution (phosphorus) indicators |
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| Authors: | Richard E. Dodge T.D. Jickells Anthony H. Knap S. Boyd R.P.M. Bak |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Nova University Oceanographic Center, 8000 N. Ocean Dr., Dania, FL 33004-3078, USA;2. Bermuda Biological Station, St George''s West, 1-15, Bermuda UK;3. Caribbean Marine Biological Institute, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | The inorganic and total phosphorus concentrations of the skeleton of reef-building corals have been determined on specimens from Bermuda, St Croix and Curacao. Concentrations determined on sub-samples dated by density band growth increments indicate that a record of seawater phosphorus is preserved which, in certain cases, is consistent with the location and time history of sewage and other phorphorus pollution episodes. |
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