RT Journal Article
T1 Terrazas recifales en el litoral de Puerto Plata (Costa Norte, República Dominicana)
T1 Reef terraces at Puerto Plata litoral (Northern Coast, Dominican Republic)
A1 Morales González, Juan Antonio
A1 Romero Valiente, Juan Manuel
AB The North Coast of Dominican Republic is a tectonically rising coast drained by short rivers, with amean wave height of 1.5 m and microtidal tides .This coast develops an active reef flat bordering sandybeaches and other deeper reef terraces. These terraces are located 5 and 15 meters deep and are separatedby high dip slopes with small chanyons bioclastic sandy aprons. The present paper characterizes the reefterraces located in front of Puerto Plata coast from a morphosedimentary point of view. The active flatdisplays live and dead coral reefs and wide Phanerogam prairies, whereas the deep reef terraces aremainly constituted by a calcirrudite of bioclastic coral fragments whitout living corals
PB Universidad de Huelva
YR 2010
FD 2010
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/7503
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/7503
LA spa
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 14 jul 2026