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Main types of reefs
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U.S. Geological Survey
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Educação Superior::Ciências Exatas e da Terra::Oceanografia The image shows the three main types of coral reefs: fringing reef, barrier reefs and atoll reefs, which are formed by volcanic islands. These three types of reefs are differentiated by the stage of geological evolution, respectively. The evolution hypothesis of reefs was proposed by Charles Darwin and later confirmed by British scientists a century ago