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Volume: 54 (1970)

Issue: 10. (October)

First Page: 1931

Last Page: 1932

Title: Stratigraphic Reefs Versus Ecologic Reefs: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

Author(s): R. J. Dunham (2)

Abstract:

Thick laterally restricted masses of pure or largely pure carbonate rock long have been called "reefs." Such masses as the Capitan reef are here termed "stratigraphic reefs," in contrast to organically bound "ecologic reefs." Stratigraphic reefs differ from ecologic reefs in that their binding may be either organic or inorganic. The two types of binding are detected easily in transported debris.

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