This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.8 million to a
few centuries old) gained since the eighties, and introduces geologists, oceanographers …

Raine Island is a vegetated coral cay located on the far northern outer Great Barrier Reef
(GBR), recognised as a globally significant turtle rookery. Cay geomorphology, specifically …

Concentrations of P and trace metals Zn, Cu, Cd, Pb and Hg in the faeces, bones, eggshells
and feathers of seabirds and in the plants, soils and sediments with and without seabird …

Geochemical characteristics of four ornithogenic sediment profiles (GQ, GJ3, JQ and JY2)
from Ganquan (GQ), Guangjin (GJ3), Jinqing (JQ) and Jinyin (JY2) coral islands in the South …

Raine Island is a low-lying reef island located on the outer edge of the northern Great Barrier
Reef (nGBR). It is part of the Raine Island National Park (Scientific) and is managed to …

Future climatic change and sea-level rise threaten the persistence of reef islands potentially
making them uninhabitable over the next century. Improved understanding of island …

Offshore sequences of volcaniclastic rocks (such as hyaloclastite deposits) are poorly
understood in terms of their rock properties and their response to compaction and burial. As …

From a rare freshwater lake characteristic of alkalescence, named “Cattle Pond”, on the
Dongdao Island of South China Sea (16° 39′–16° 41′ N, 112° 43′–112° 45′ E), we …

Sea turtles rely on reef islands for key parts of their reproductive cycle and require specific
sediment characteristics to incubate their eggs and dig their nests. However, little is known …

Beachrock is a friable to well-cemented sedimentary rock that results from rapid lithification
of sand and/or gravel by calcium carbonate cement precipitation in the intertidal zone. It …