Figure 2
From: Bryozoans are Major Modern Builders of South Atlantic Oddly Shaped Reefs
Underwater photos of Abrolhos Bank deep pinnacle reefs in Parcel dos Abrolhos (PA) and California Reef (CR): (A) Side view of part of a mushroom shaped “chapeirão” in PA (15 m deep); (B) Lateral bottom-up view of a columnar biogenic pinnacle structure in CR (soft bottom at 33 m deep and reef top at 20 m deep); (C) Panoramic view of that pinnacle’s reef top in CR, revealing lateral expansion process by the plate coral Montastraea cavernosa (arrows). Photos: Áthila Bertoncini & Fernando Moraes/Rede Abrolhos.
