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Coral Mortality and African Dust Photo Gallery

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Grecian Rocks Star Coral: 1988-2001

Grecian Rocks
star coral
11 photos		 brain coral
3 photos		 star coral
3 photos		 star coral
5 photos
   
Carysfort Reef
star coral
5 photos		 brain coral
6 photos

Click on any photo to view a full-screen version [~870x570, 95-170 K].

This large star coral (Montastrea annularis) was being attacked by black band disease in 1988 and was mostly dead by 1998.

1988 photo
1988		 1998 photo
1998		 2001 photo
2001

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