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Growth records in Porites coral cores from the Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia

Created 24/06/2017

Updated 09/10/2017

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As part of the long term environmental assessment of the 1991 Gulf War, the Australian Institute of Marine Science was requested to conduct growth studies and chemistry studies on coral cores collected offshore from Saudi Arabia.

Short coral cores were collected from 28 Porites coral colonies at four reef sites (Jurayd, Jana, Karan and Gosp-4) in the Arabian Gulf in January-February 2003. The coral cores were mounted, sliced and X-rayed to reveal annual density banding patterns. Annual density bands were dated from the time of collection using X-ray positive prints and skeletal density measured by gamma densitometry. Densitometry of the core slices also provided annual coral growth characteristics: average skeletal density, extension and calcification rates.

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Title Growth records in Porites coral cores from the Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia
Language English
Licence Other
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/d95ff7a8-f347-421e-8470-0ec4ad97acab
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Australian Institute of Marine Science
adc@aims.gov.au
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