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X-radiograph and coral image of an Orbicella faveolata

By St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center 2013 (approx.)
X-radiograph and coral image of an Orbicella faveolata
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An x-radiograph (top) and photograph (bottom) of an Orbicella faveolata specimen collected from Dry Tortugas National Park in 2008. Note the annual banding couplets of high-and-low density bands. Figure modified from Flannery and Poore, 2013.

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Public Domain.

Sr/Ca Proxy Sea-Surface Temperature Reconstructions from Modern and Holocene Montastraea faveolata Specimens from the Dry Tortug