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Eastern Dry Rocks
5/3/98
When a large colony of Elkhorn coral is dislodged during a storm event it often settles upside down, in a position that becomes a very stable base for the continuation of the corals growth. In this manner the ‘palmata zones’ of the coral reef shift and expand in size.

Photo by Craig Quirolo.

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