Articles | Volume 13, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4513-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4513-2016
Research article
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12 Aug 2016
Research article |  | 12 Aug 2016

Low Florida coral calcification rates in the Plio-Pleistocene

Thomas C. Brachert, Markus Reuter, Stefan Krüger, James S. Klaus, Kevin Helmle, and Janice M. Lough

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We have analysed the rate of calcification of fossil reef corals. These measurements are important, because the rate of formation of the skeleton depends on the physical environment in which the corals lived. The rates of skeletal calcification of the fossils were approximately 50 % lower than they are in extant reef corals. This is a likely effect of high water temperatures and/or low carbonate saturation of the water – factors that will also affect coral growth by future global warming.
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