Reef-Building Coral Skeletons as Chemical Pollution (Phosphorus) Indicators

Richard E. Dodge; T. D. Jickells; Anthony H. Knap; S. Boyd; R. P.M. Bak

doi:10.1016/0025-326X(84)90317-5

Reef-Building Coral Skeletons as Chemical Pollution (Phosphorus) Indicators

Richard E. Dodge
, T. D. Jickells
, Anthony H. Knap
, S. Boyd
, R. P.M. Bak

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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.

Original language	American English
Journal	Marine Pollution Bulletin
Volume	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-326X(84)90317-5
State	Published - May 1 1984

Bibliographical note

Dodge, Richard E., T. D. Jickells, Anthony H. Knap, S. Boyd, and R. P. M. Bak. 1984. "Reef-building coral skeletons as chemical pollution (phosphorus) indicators." Marine Pollution Bulletin no. 15 (5):178-187. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0025-326X(84)90317-5.

Keywords

Coral reefs
Water pollution (chemical)

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Marine Biology
Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology

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