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  • noun Plural form of bioherm.

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  • Some of these zones are so persistent that they are often called bioherms Fenton and Fenton, 1933.

    Archive 2008-09-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Some of these zones are so persistent that they are often called bioherms Fenton and Fenton, 1933.

    Glacier National Park Geology & Paleontology: Part 4 - Siyeh ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Corals that do not have algal symbionts can also form significant reef communities in deeper, darker, and colder waters, but these communities are distinguished as cold-water coral bioherms.

    Coral reef 2010

  • Huge long bioherms, colorful red and green laminated hunks, and circular cross sections are some of the more common you will see.

    Field Work Favorites ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Fenton, C.L. and Fenton, M.A., 1933, Algal reefs or bioherms in the Belt series of Montana: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 44, p.

    Glacier National Park Geology & Paleontology: Part 4 - Siyeh ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Fenton, C.L. and Fenton, M.A., 1933, Algal reefs or bioherms in the Belt series of Montana: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 44, p.1135-1142.

    Archive 2008-08-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Fenton, C.L. and Fenton, M.A., 1933, Algal reefs or bioherms in the Belt series of Montana: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 44, p.1135-1142.

    Glacier National Park Geology & Paleontology: Part 1 - background ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Huge long bioherms, colorful red and green laminated hunks, and circular cross sections are some of the more common you will see.

    Archive 2008-12-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • Fenton, C.L. and Fenton, M.A., 1933, Algal reefs or bioherms in the Belt series of Montana: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 44, p.

    Archive 2008-09-01 ReBecca Foster 2008

  • The youngest deep palaeolake, 'Tauca', was previously dated using carbonate fossils from outcropping sediments and carbonate bioherms (reefs) that mark past highstands.

    Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia 2007

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