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fringing reef

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fringing reef

Coral reef that is attached to the coast without an intervening lagoon.



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Several women recall having to carry small amounts of water up from the caves, while the men fished off the narrow, steep fringing reef.
One & A Half Pacific Islands: Stories the Banaban People Tell of ... by Pollock, Nancy J. / Pacific Affairs
The submerged landscape also features a double reef where, at about 100 feet, there is a channel of empty sand and beyond it, another fringing reef that begins at 130 feet.
It's better in bonaire by Dickinson, Elaine / BOAT/U.S. Magazine
For thousands of years a fringing reef has protected Hanauma Bay from wave erosion.
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