How the Great Barrier Reef was formed
Preface
These project resource pages
describe the way in which the reefs in
north-eastern Australia developed over the last
20,000 years, as the sea flooded the coastal
plain.
The full story is more
complicated than is presented here. Sea level has
risen and fallen several times in the past
million years, or so. Many of the low hills on
the coastal plain were reefs that formed in
previous periods of high sea level.
References
Corals of Australia and the Indo Pacific, Dr. J.
E. N. Veron
Paleoclimatology, Oxford Monographs on Geology
and Geophysics No. 36, Thomas J. Crowley &
Gerald R. North
Reefs at Risk, Marine and Coastal Areas Programme
of IUCN - The World Conservation Union
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