The Changing Fate of Coral Reefs: Lessons from the Deep PastrnPages 3-27rnrnTaphonomy: Detecting Critical Events in Fossil Reef-Coral AssemblagesrnBenjamin J. GreensteinrnPages 31-60rnrnBiotic Turnover Events on Coral Reefs: A Probabilistic ApproachrnRichard B. Aronson, Stephen P. EllnerrnPages 61-84rnrnInferring Past Outbreaks of the Crown-of-Thorn…
From the perspective of human time, very little changes on 'the surface of Earth. From the perspective of geologic time, the period from Earth's beginning more than 4.5 billion years ago to the pres• ent day, however, the surface of the planet is in constant motion, being reshaped over and over. The constructive and destru…