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?
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bring it up on to shore,.
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it's carried in the surface layers and as the waves
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And the circulation of the water in the
atoll is downwind on the surface and when it reaches the
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WARREN:
other side then there's a return 4h the deeper currents, --
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DONALDSON;
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WARREN:
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Side,
In part,
In part it leap out into the ocean on
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the other side, too.
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DUNHAM:
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DONALDSON:
How deep is an atoll?
Most of them are 180, 200 feet.
In a
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living atoll this seems to be about the growth rate,
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grow into the wind, grow into the east, since the prevailing
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winds are from the east,
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and the inner reef or ground more slowly.
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expand out to the deeper portions of the atoll decay or the
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corals decay and make the bowl shape so characteristic because
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of lack of food, lack of light.
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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
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the coral heads are so spaced that they get food produce
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coming in,
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UFTON:
Lauren, our coffee is here.
Would you
like to break now or some time soon?
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DONALDSON:
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UPTON:
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ROOT:
It seers a logical place to break,
Whenever you're ready,
I wanted to ask you
Statford Warren
DOE/UCLA
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