From Corals to Canyons: The Great Barrier Reef Margin

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Print Version (257987 bytes) EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 89, NO. 24, doi:10.1029/2008EO240002, 2008 From Corals to Canyons: The Great Barrier Reef Margin Jody M. Webster School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia Robin J. Beaman School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia Thomas Bridge School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia Peter J. Davies University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Maria Byrne University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Stefan Williams University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Phil Manning University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Oscar Pizarro University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Kate Thornborough University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Erika Woolsey University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Alex Thomas Oxford University Sandy Tudhope University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Abstract The significance of submerged fossil coral reefs as important archives of abrupt global sea level rise and climate change has been confirmed by investigations in the Caribbean [Fairbanks, 1989] and the Indo-Pacific (see Montaggioni [2005] for a summary) and by recent Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) activities in Tahiti [Camoin et al., 2007]. Similar submerged (40–130 meters) reef structures are preserved along the margin of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), but they have not yet been systematically studied. Published 10 June 2008. Index Terms: 3002 Marine Geology and Geophysics: Continental shelf and slope processes (4219); 1605 Global Change: Abrupt/rapid climate change (4901, 8408); 1641 Global Change: Sea level change (1222, 1225, 4556). Print Version (257987 bytes) Citation: Webster, J. M., et al. (2008), From Corals to Canyons: The Great Barrier Reef Margin, Eos Trans. AGU, 89(24), doi:10.1029/2008EO240002. Copyright 2008 by the American Geophysical Union.

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