The Skeletal Ultrastructure of Scleractinian Corals |
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Acropora cervicornis Acropora palmata allochems aquifer aragonite fiber bundles Astrocoeniina axial corallite axis Barbados black arrows bleached branch CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ cantilevered breaks centers of calcification cervicornis Constantz 1986 coral skeleton corallum crack CRUZ The University CRUZ UNIVERSITY dark streaks diagenesis diagenetic dissolution dissolved aragonite fibers elastic modulus electron microscopic equant crystals fasciculi fiber diameters fracture Fungiina Gladfelter 1982 Goreau grain boundaries granular intragranular Library The University marine cements material mechanical mesoglea meteoric water microarchitecture microns MN/m² molluscan morphologies nacre neomorphism non-zooxanthellate nuclear packets nucleate organic matrix partially dissolved aragonite petrographic thin sections phreatic plane Plate Pleistocene polycrystalline aragonite fiber polyps Porites porosity prolifera radial rates reef samples SANTA CRUZ scanning electron micrograph scleractinian corals sea water septa septal tips skeletal porosity species specimens stress concentrations structural synapticulae tension tissue total surface area trabecular axes ultrastructure University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA Wainwright 1963 white arrow zooxanthellae