* Coral reefs

The Coral Sea Islands Territory includes a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia.

Coral reefs have long been economically important as providers of fishing grounds, protectors of shore buildings against currents and tides, and more recently as centers of tourism.

Category: Coral reefs of the United States

Coral reefs also support a huge community of life, including the corals themselves, their symbiotic zooxanthellae, tropical fish and many other organisms.

Coral reefs are low-lying structures that have built up on basaltic lava flows under the ocean's surface.

Coral reefs and shallow coastal waters make navigation difficult in areas where channels have not been dredged.

coral reefs include Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument and the Buck Island Reef National Monument ; more than half of Saint John and nearly all of Hassel Island are owned by the U. S. National Park Service

Coral reefs are the result of mutualisms between coral organisms and various types of algae that live inside them.

Coral reefs are under stress around the world.

Coral reefs on land provide lime for use as building blocks (" coral rag ").

Coral is farmed by coral farmers who live locally to the reefs and farm for reef conservation or for income.

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Coral reefs are favorite feeding grounds and are usually shared with sharks during high tide.

Coral bleaching is a disruption of the balance between polyps and algae, and can lead to the breakdown and death of coral reefs.

Coral reefs are underwater structures made from calcium carbonate secreted by corals.

Coral reefs are colonies of tiny living animals found in marine waters that contain few nutrients.

Coral reefs deliver ecosystem services to tourism, fisheries and shoreline protection.

Coral reefs are found in the deep sea away from continental shelves, around oceanic islands and as atolls.

In 1842 in his first monograph, The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs Charles Darwin set out his theory of the formation of atoll reefs, an idea he conceived during the voyage of the Beagle.

Coral reefs are not found in coastal areas where colder and nutrient-rich upwellings occur.

Another cousin was the academic and novelist Coral Lansbury, whose son is former Australian federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull.

* Georg Kaiser's 1917 play The Coral depicts a powerful industrialist whose male secretary is his exact double.

Many of these, such as " Black Coral " ( which concerns an American living on an island off of Honduras ) and " The Jaguar Hunter " ( the story of a man whose wife's debt forces him to hunt a mythical black jaguar which his people consider sacred ), explore cultural clashes.

Maroubra Force, Lieutenant Colonel Honner, and Brigadier Potts were instrumental in the successful defence of Australia, and are sometimes cited as " the men who saved Australia ", alongside the U. S. Admiral Frank J. Fletcher, whose actions at the Battle of the Coral Sea also staved off Japanese efforts to capture Port Moresby.

* Georg Kaiser's 1917 play The Coral depicts a powerful industrialist whose male secretary is his exact double ; among the secretary's duties, he is occasionally required to impersonate his employer at public functions.

Coral heads consist of accumulations of individual animals called polyps, arranged in diverse shapes.

Coral polyps do not photosynthesize, but have a symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae ; these organisms live within the tissues of polyps and provide organic nutrients that nourish the polyp.

Coral reefs are actually composed of tiny, fragile animals known as coral polyps.

Coral reef s are a highly Productivity ( ecology ) | productive marine ecosystem.

The Chesterfield Islands in the Coral Sea are also part of New Caledonia.

Along the Pacific Ocean's irregular western margins lie many seas, the largest of which are the Celebes Sea, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Philippine Sea, Sea of Japan, South China Sea, Sulu Sea, Tasman Sea, and Yellow Sea.

Coral for example only lives in warm and shallow marine environments and fossils of coral are thus typical for shallow marine facies.

Coral reef s are amongst the most diverse ecosystems on earth.

The distribution of atolls around the globe is instructive: most of the world's atolls are in the Pacific Ocean ( with concentrations in the Tuamotu Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Coral Sea Islands, and the island groups of Kiribati, Tuvalu and Tokelau ) and Indian Ocean ( the Atolls of the Maldives, the Laccadive Islands, the Chagos Archipelago and the Outer Islands of the Seychelles ).

The southernmost atolls of the world are Elizabeth Reef at 29 ° 58 ' S, and nearby Middleton Reef at 29 ° 29 ' S, in the Tasman Sea, both of which are part of the Coral Sea Islands Territory.

Coral atolls are also an important place where dolomitization of calcite occurs.

Coral fossils are not restricted to reef remnants, and many solitary fossils may be found elsewhere, such as Cyclocyathus, which occurs in England's Gault clay formation.

Coral skeletons, e. g., Isididae are also used for bone grafting in humans.

Coral seeds are grown in nurseries then replanted on the reef.

; Corals ( see also sclerochronology ): Coral " rings " are similar to tree rings, except they respond to different things, such as the water temperature and wave action.

These 3 major chains are Café de Coral, Fairwood Fast Food, and Maxim MX.

Located in southwest Florida, the principal cities in the county are Fort Myers ( the county seat ) and Cape Coral ( the county's most populous municipality ).

The Begman duke's elder daughter Coral, and Luke's old friend Dalt the Mercenary, are both revealed to be bastard Amberites, sired by Oberon out of wedlock: Coral walks the Pattern and disappears completely, apparently held prisoner by it.

The assassination of the two remaining candidates throws things into confusion: Coral is kidnapped by agents of Chaos ( who want her because the Jewel of Judgement is her eye ), and pursued by Merlin and Jurt, who call on the assistance of Luke, Dalt and Nayda: they find themselves having to fight agents of the Pattern as well as the Logrus to rescue her, and finally confront the Pattern itself and threaten to damage it by spilling their Amberite blood on it, if it does not back off from their conflict ( the four others are sent safely away while Luke remains: contact is lost just after he says " Shit, I spilled it!