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Plant Skeletons in the Great Barrier Reef


Claire.

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Vast Pile of Plant Skeletons Hides in the Great Barrier Reef

In the midst of the dazzling outcrops of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef lies a vast but obscure structure. Unlike its more famous neighbor, this edifice is not made by coral, the little tentacled animals that build the giant, colorful, calcium carbonate structures we know as reefs. Instead, this neighboring feature is a thick pile of the vacated calcium carbonate skeletons of, of all things, a plant. The drifts of empty skeletons can reach 65 feet thick, sit about 100 feet beneath the surface, and, based on new lidar and sonar data, assume strange patterns: complex nets, rings, and ripples.

Read more: Scientific American

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