REEF-BUILDING CORAL SKELETONS AS CHEMICAL POLLUTION (PHOSPHORUS) INDICATORS
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The inorganic and total phosphorus concentrations of the skeleton of reef-building corals have been determined on specimens from Bermuda, St Croix and Curacao. Concentrations determined on sub-samples dated by density band growth increments indicate that a record of seawater phosphorus is preserved which, in certain cases, is consistent with the location and time history of sewage and other phorphorus pollution episodes. 1984.