Coastal Processes and Landforms
Coastal Processes and Landforms Coastal Processes and Landforms
3. Coral Coastal Features
3. Coral Coastal FeaturesCoral landforms represent a waveresistantlimestone structures producedby living organisms, found principally inshallow, tropical marine waters.Coral polyps are the most importantlandform building organisms. Thespecies that secrete calcium carbonateare known as hard coral polyps or,simply, stony corals.• Atoll: A ring-shaped collection of coral reefs that nearly or entirely encloses alagoon.• Barrier reef: A long, narrow ridge of coral relatively near and parallel to ashoreline, separated from it by a lagoon.
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3. Coral <strong>Coastal</strong> FeaturesCoral l<strong>and</strong>forms represent a waveresistantlimestone structures producedby living organisms, found principally inshallow, tropical marine waters.Coral polyps are the most importantl<strong>and</strong>form building organisms. Thespecies that secrete calcium carbonateare known as hard coral polyps or,simply, stony corals.• Atoll: A ring-shaped collection of coral reefs that nearly or entirely encloses alagoon.• Barrier reef: A long, narrow ridge of coral relatively near <strong>and</strong> parallel to ashoreline, separated from it by a lagoon.
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