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University of Granada

Great Barrier Reef

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A landmark international study, recently published in Nature Geoscience, shows that the Great Barrier Reef has suffered 5 death events in the last 30,000 years. The groundbreaking study of the world's largest reef system, involving the participation of Juan Carlos Braga Alarcón, a Full Professor at the UGR's Department of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology, reveals that these events were driven mostly by variations in sea level and associated environmental changes.

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