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2003 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

The Corals and Coral Reefs of Easter Island — A Preliminary Look

verfasst von : Dennis K. Hubbard, Michel Garcia

Erschienen in: Easter Island

Verlag: Springer US

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Easter Island sits in geographic isolation in the southern Pacific Ocean at latitude 27° 8’ S and longitude 109°20’ W, nearly 4500 km west of Chile (Fig. 1). It is a small island near the western end of a chain of volcanoes that are related to hot-spot activity dating beyond 3.5 million years before present. The small island of Sala y Gomez to the east and a series of submerged platforms are an extension of a volcanic lineament along the edge of the Nazca Plate (Kruse, et al., 1997; Newman and Foster, 1983.

Metadaten
Titel
The Corals and Coral Reefs of Easter Island — A Preliminary Look
verfasst von
Dennis K. Hubbard
Michel Garcia
Copyright-Jahr
2003
Verlag
Springer US
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0183-1_5