
033 Rock face in the Late Miocene carbonates exposed in the vicinity of Cap Blanc, Mallorca, Spain. Thickets of coral (Porites) sticks and branches with laminar morphologies bridging the base of the thickets are typical of the "branching-coral zone". This pattern of in-place thickets (4-6 m wide, 4 m high) with inter-thicket rubble zones (4-8 m wide, 4 m high) occurs repeatedly along an exposure face parallel to the reef tract, and it is interpreted to be part of a spur-and-groove system. Corals are represented by moldic pores. Scale in picture (Pomar, 1991).
| Miocene Platform Reefs of Mallorca and other Balearic Islands / 033 Cap Blanc Coral Thicket
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