Environmentally controlled succession in a late Pleistocene coral reef (Sinai, Egypt)

Mewis, Heike; Kiessling, Wolfgang

doi:10.1007/s00338-012-0968-y

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“…Community transitions within a core may therefore represent reef response to changing palaeo‐environmental conditions, but similar patterns may also be produced by ecological succession and vertical reef accretion, or by lateral growth during sea‐level stillstands (Abbey et al ., ). However, identifying ecological versus environmentally driven successions remains controversial, with some authors arguing that autogenic, short‐term successions are virtually absent in Quaternary reefs (Mewis & Kiessling, ). It has been demonstrated that abrupt variations in framework aggradation rates within a given cored sequence may be related to changes in the composition of coral assemblages (Montaggioni, ; Camoin et al ., ).…”

Section: Reef Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coral reef response to Quaternary sea‐level and environmental changes: State of the science

Camoin

Webster

2015

Sedimentology

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There is considerable uncertainty about future sea-level projections due to the current poor understanding of the vulnerability and sensitivity of ice sheets to global warming. Fossil coral reefs represent a unique archive of sea-level and associated environmental changes that extend far beyond instrumental records. Here, recent advances in this field are summarized, focusing on periods of Earth history typified by rapid sea-level rise and short-term climate excursions. Sea-level and reef response records from the Last Deglaciation, and periods characterized by higher sea-level stands and short-term and low-magnitude sea-level oscillations such as the Mid to Late Holocene and the Last Interglacial are synthesised. Special emphasis is given to understanding how coral reefs have responded to these changes in terms of reef development, architecture and composition. Finally, seven major challenges and future research directions are identified.

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Section: Reef Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coral reef response to Quaternary sea‐level and environmental changes: State of the science

Camoin

Webster

2015

Sedimentology

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“…Sampling bias between vertical and horizontal surfaces cannot explain this shift in community composition (Webb 1999). This subtle succession could be driven by the interactions among organisms (autogenic succession) or by physically induced changes in the environment (allogenic succession) (Tansley 1935;Mewis & Kiessling 2013). Although it is difficult to distinguish between the two types of succession in fossil reefs, we suggest that the absence of a distinct facies change within the first unit may indicate an autogenic succession.…”

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confidence: 92%

Allogenic succession in Late Ordovician reefs from southeast China: a response to the Cathaysian orogeny

Li¹,

Kiessling

2015

Estonian J. Earth Sci.

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Several Late Ordovician (late Katian) reef complexes are known from the border area of Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces in southeast China. We studied two coral-stromatoporoid reefs exposed in the Xiazhen Formation at Zhuzhai (Yushan, Jiangxi). The reefs have a combined thickness of 7.4 m and are metazoan-dominated with most reef-builders in growth position. Stromatoporoids and tabulate corals constitute the framework of the reefs. Stromatoporoids (mostly Clathrodictyon) dominate the first unit and show a vertical increase in proportion and dominance from the middle part to the top of the unit, whereas tabulate corals (dominated by Catenipora and Agetolites) are the main reef-builders in the second unit where stromatoporoids are rare. We attribute this change to a greater tolerance of tabulate corals to turbidity, allowing them to thrive in the muddy facies of the upper unit. This facies change is probably related to the increasing terrestrial input from the northwestward expansion of the Cathaysian Land during the late Katian. The Cathaysian orogeny also led to a short-term exposure of the sea floor in the study area, which terminated the reef growth.

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“…This is one of the few attempts to evaluate the depositional water depth of late Pleistocene reef terraces (here tentatively assigned to MIS 5e) at the Red Sea by quantitative analysis of coral coverage and taxonomic composition (see also Mewis and Kiessling 2013). The studied modern reef at Abu Sauatir shows the assemblages of wind-exposed settings with a steep relief that are typical for the northern Red Sea.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Pleistocene reef terraces of the Red Sea have been studied since the late 19th century (Walther 1888) and have been investigated over the past few decades with respect to sea level changes, microfacies, diagenesis, age, and faunal composition (Veeh and Giegengack 1970;Dullo 1986Dullo , 1990Andres et al 1988;Hoang and Taviani 1991;El Moursi et al 1994;Gvirtzman 1994;Bosworth and Taviani 1996;Strasser and Strohmenger 1997;Taviani 1998a, b;Plaziat et al 2008;Lambeck et al 2011;Parker et al 2012;Mewis and Kiessling 2013). To our knowledge, however, no study has quantitatively compared the faunal composition of modern and nearby fossil reefs in an attempt to define the original depositional water depth.…”

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Quantitative comparison of Pleistocene and Recent coral reef habitats in the northern Red Sea (El Quseir, Egypt)

Alexandroff

Zuschin

Kroh

2016

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Environmentally controlled succession in a late Pleistocene coral reef (Sinai, Egypt)

Cited by 14 publications

References 39 publications

Coral reef response to Quaternary sea‐level and environmental changes: State of the science

Coral reef response to Quaternary sea‐level and environmental changes: State of the science

Allogenic succession in Late Ordovician reefs from southeast China: a response to the Cathaysian orogeny

Quantitative comparison of Pleistocene and Recent coral reef habitats in the northern Red Sea (El Quseir, Egypt)

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