Development of an inshore fringing coral reef using textural, compositional and stratigraphic data from Magnetic Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

This contribution seeks to understand the initiation, structure, and evolution of the fringing reef off Nelly Bay using multi-proxy geochemical, sedimentological and taxonomical analyses of radiocarbon-dated sediment cores from three transects across the reef flat.Highlights of this study include: 1. Performed a multi-proxy analyses of fringing reef cores from Nelly Bay. 2. Compositional changes in our reef cores provide evidence of environmental changes. 3. The reef top facies is an erosional unconformity linked to recent sea-level fall. 4. New data on reef initiation, vertical and lateral accretion for fringing reefs