island of bola bola showing fringing reef sea shore rock tropical cliff outside palm beach sand A Fringing reef is a kind of cor
A Fringing reef is a kind of coral reef, that is located in the tropics generally immediately near the shoreline. This type of coral reef is the most common type of reef that is found. This type of reef grows the best on some kind of hard surface, so it preferentially grows on areas with rocky bottoms. They may also grow on softer bottoms as well if there are some hard areas. Fringing reefs grow as a thin strip along the shore at a rate of about 2 to 7mm per year. It is Darwin’s belief that fringing reefs are the first kind of reefs to form around a landmass in a long-term reef growth process. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between fringing reefs and another type of reef called a barrier reef. One of the ways that these two types of reefs are separated is based on the depth of the lagoon in the back reef which is the area near to shore. If the water in the lagoon is less than 10m deep it is a fringing reef. Another major difference is that barrier reefs tend to be farther away from shore than fringing reefs and have a larger lagoon.
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