Mass of Off-Reef Sediments on Wistari Reef

Name: Mass of Off-Reef Sediments on Wistari Reef
Published: 2007-05-30
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia License

Updated: 2014-12-16

Wistari Reef is a lagoonal platform reef, situated on the Tropic of Capricorn, within the Capricorn and Bunker region of the southern Great Barrier Reef. The results indicate that the volume of off-reef sediment is ~ 4.064exp8 with a mass of 5.872exp8 tonnes. These values are estimated based on seismic profiles associated with the study.