aboutd as well as in the open ocean. The shallow waters you tetcing were meant to te the shallows, weren't they, at depths of 15, 20, 30 feet? DONALDSON: w Yes, might. ana - w - 235 bring it up on to shore,. It comes up on the Shore at it's carried in the surface layers and as the waves aN And the circulation of the water in the atoll is downwind on the surface and when it reaches the wp WARREN: other side then there's a return 4h the deeper currents, -- 10 ceoier-vater ‘ind bettinglon Sncdgh' the il do “Fhis is the deep circulation that you mentioned . i2 DONALDSON; 13 WARREN: 14 Side, In part, In part it leap out into the ocean on % the other side, too. 15 7° DUNHAM: 16 DONALDSON: How deep is an atoll? Most of them are 180, 200 feet. In a 17 living atoll this seems to be about the growth rate, 18 grow into the wind, grow into the east, since the prevailing 19 winds are from the east, 20 and the inner reef or ground more slowly. 21 expand out to the deeper portions of the atoll decay or the 22 corals decay and make the bowl shape so characteristic because 23 of lack of food, lack of light. 24 25 CONARD: They They decay on the downwind side So they tend to But you get a lot of coral heads, don't you? DONALDSON: Yes, we have localized ones, But 26 27 the coral heads are so spaced that they get food produce 28 coming in, 29 30 UFTON: Lauren, our coffee is here. Would you like to break now or some time soon? 31 DONALDSON: 32 UPTON: 33 ROOT: It seers a logical place to break, Whenever you're ready, I wanted to ask you Statford Warren DOE/UCLA was the syecies that <6