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Coral Mortality and African Dust Photo Gallery

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Grecian Rocks Star Coral: 1961-2001

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

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1961 photo
1961		 1971 photo
1971
1988 photo
1988
1998 photo
1998		 2001 photo
2001
This large Montastrea annularis head, featured in several publications, was encroached upon by extensive staghorn and elkhorn growth by 1971 but the area was devoid of these branching corals by 1988. Diver is hovering over the same coral in 1971 and 1988.

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