ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD REEF
From Middle Dutch ref, from Old Norse rifrib1, reef².
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REEF»
The term «reef» is very widely used and occupies the
12.531 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
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5 QUOTES WITH «REEF»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
reef.
I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.
China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.
A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.
The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REEF»
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reef in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
reef and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
A pictorial celebration of the reefs of the world captures the unique creatures and plants--including sponges, algae, mollusks, and thousands of species of fish--that make up these colorful underwater habitats, covering reefs in every ...
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Reef in Time: The Great Barrier
Reef from Beginning to End
Like many coral specialists fifteen years ago, Veron thought Australia's Great Barrier Reef was impervious to climate change. Then he saw for himself the devastation that elevated sea temperatures can inflict on corals.
John Edward Norwood Veron, 2008
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The Great Barrier
Reef: Biology, Environment and Management
This comprehensive guide describes the organisms and ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef, as well as the biological, chemical and physical processes that influence them.
Pat Hutchings, Mike Kingsford, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, 2008
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Coral
Reef Conservation
A multi-disciplinary account of the current status, problems, and solutions to the coral reef crisis.
Isabelle M. Côté, John D. Reynolds (Ph. D.), 2006
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Reef Creature Identification: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas
The book that has been relied on for a decade to identify the weird and wonderful crabs, lobsters, shrimps, jellies, sponges, tunicates and mollusks that inhabit the reefs is now 30 percent larger!
Paul Humann, Ned DeLoach, 2002
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The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier
Reef: Development, ...
This 2007 book reviews the history of geomorphological studies of the Great Barrier Reef and assesses the influences of sea-level change and oceanographic processes on the development of reefs over the last 10,000 years.
David Hopley, Scott G. Smithers, Kevin Parnell, 2007
A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father's home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island's disappearing reef.
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The Great Barrier
Reef: History, Science, Heritage
Incisive and a delight to read in its thorough account of the scientific, social and environmental consequences of European impact on the world's greatest coral reef system, this extraordinary book is sure to become a classic.
James Bowen, Margarita Bowen, 2002
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Quaternary Coral
Reef Systems: History, development ...
This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.8 million to a few centuries old) gained since the eighties, and introduces geologists, oceanographers and environmentalists to sedimentological and ...
Lucien F. Montaggioni, Colin J.R. Braithwaite, 2009
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At Home in the Coral
Reef
An introduction to life on the coral reef.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REEF»
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reef is used in the context of the following news items.
Great Barrier Reef spared Unesco 'in danger' listing
United Nations heritage body Unesco has voted not to put Australia's Great Barrier Reef on its world danger list. The decision has been welcomed by the state of ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
Nat'l scientist warns of reef destruction from China's activities in West …
The economic value of the Spratly coral reef ecosystem amounts to over $350,000 per hectare per year. However, an estimated area of 311 hectares of reef ... «GMA News, Jun 15»
Great Barrier Reef spared 'in danger' listing - for now
The Great Barrier Reef should not go on a World Heritage danger list, according to a United Nations draft report. However, it says Australia must carry out ... «BBC News, May 15»
US Says Beijing Is Building Up South China Sea Islands
American officials have determined that in the past five months alone, China has expanded the artificial islands on submerged reefs known as the Spratlys ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
China's first runway in Spratlys under construction
China's island building at Fiery Cross Reef has created a landmass that is ... The 23 March imagery of Fiery Cross Reef also shows further dredging on the new ... «IHS Jane's 360, Apr 15»
Chinese Mischief at Mischief Reef
They show that since January China has moved with alarming speed to dredge huge quantities of sand from around Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands and use ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
China is conducting 'large scale' land reclamation on a disputed reef
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is conducting "large scale" land reclamation and construction on a reef in the disputed Spratly Islands, state-backed media reported ... «Business Insider, Feb 15»
Yachting: Race yacht slams into remote reef
An exhausted New Zealander among the crew of a round-the-world racing yacht wrecked on a remote reef has made contact with his anxious family, telling them ... «New Zealand Herald, Nov 14»
Great Barrier Reef threatened by Queensland plan to let miners take …
Queensland is set to enact water legislation that the body responsible for protecting the Great Barrier Reef has warned will pose environmental risks to the reef ... «ABC Online, Nov 14»
China building airstrip-capable island on Fiery Cross Reef
China is building an island at least 3,000 m long on Fiery Cross Reef that could be the site for its first airstrip in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. «IHS Jane's 360, Nov 14»
