Australian scientists found a detached coral reef on the Great Barrier Reef that exceeds the height of the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower, the Schmidt Ocean Institute said this week, the first such discovery in over 100 years. The “blade like” reef is nearly 500 metres tall and 1.5 kilometres wide, said the institute.
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Unknown titlectober 25, 2020. | Photo Credit: REUTERS It was the first detached reef of that size to be discovered in over 120 years and that it was thriving with a “blizzard of fish” in a healthy ecosystem <span>Australian scientists found a detached coral reef on the Great Barrier Reef that exceeds the height of the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower, the Schmidt Ocean Institute said this week, the first such discovery in over 100 years. The “blade like” reef is nearly 500 metres tall and 1.5 kilometres wide, said the institute. It lies 40 metres below the ocean surface and about six kilometres from the edge of Great Barrier Reef. A team of scientists from James Cook University, led by Dr. Robin Beaman, were ma Summary
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