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1: An introduction to reefs
2: The recognition of ancient reefs
3: The record: ancient reef ecologies
Part I. Environmental Controls
4: The role of physicochemical change
5: Mass extinctions: collapse and recovery
Part II. Evolutionary Innovation
6: Life on a substrate: trends in growth fomr and function
7: The rise of biological disturbance
8: Photosymbiosis: access to a new metabolic capability
Appendix: Geological Time Scale
References
Glossary
Index

About the Author

Rachel Wood, Royal Society Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1TA. Tel 01223-335420 Email: rw43@esc.cam.ac.uk

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'...The historical emphassi of Reef Evolution will probably make it most attractive to biologically oriented geologists'TREE
'...of value not only to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate course, but also to researchers in modern and ancient reef ecology.' Ethology Ecology and Evolution

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