Stranded corralia viewed end-on Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2004 Merckslides catalogue number: 16(06)-18839 Comments: At an age of 50 years, this reef deposit, now plainly part of the rock record, looks more like the Cretaceous reefs of central Texas than it does like a living reef. This region at the shore of Urbina Bay was uplifted from the sea floor by an earthquake in 1954.

Stranded corals Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2004 Merckslides catalogue number: 16(06)-18829 Comments:

Stranded corralia in cross-section Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2004 Merckslides catalogue number: 16(06)-18838 Comments:

Stranded massive coral Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2004 Merckslides catalogue number: 16(06)-18841 Comments:

Clean surface of basalt with (plagioclase?) phenocrysts Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2011 Merckdigitals catalogue number: 06-76173 Comments:

Stranded coral extensively etched by meteoric water Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2011 Merckdigitals catalogue number: 06-76163 Comments:

Stranded coral head on basalt Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2011 Merckdigitals catalogue number: 06-76165 Comments:

Stranded coral heads Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2011 Merckdigitals catalogue number: 06-76166 Comments:

Stranded coral heads Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2011 Merckdigitals catalogue number: 06-76167 Comments:

Stranded coral heads Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2011 Merckdigitals catalogue number: 06-76169 Comments:

Stranded coral heads Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2011 Merckdigitals catalogue number: 06-76170 Comments:

Fresh and eroded textures on stranded coral head Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2011 Merckdigitals catalogue number: 06-76172 Comments:

Cored stranded coral head Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2011 Merckdigitals catalogue number: 06-76171 Comments:

Marine worm tubes on basalt in uplifted region of Urbina Bay Location: Urbina Bay, Isabela, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador Year: 2011 Merckdigitals catalogue number: 06-76158 Comments:

Return to list