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reef complex

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reef complex [′rēf ‚käm‚pleks]
(geology)
The solid reef core and the heterogeneous and contiguous fragmentary material derived from it by abrasion.


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He paid particular attention to an artificial reef complex made from 175,000 concrete blocks which has just been completed at the sea Loch Linnhe in Scotland, which is now being monitored and researched.
The Regans, of Stepps, Glasgow, flew to the Casa Marina Reef complex in the resort of Sousa.
It is the only known reef complex of this age anywhere in the world, with the closest being reefs around 800 million years old located in Arctic Canada, they said.
 
 
 
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