What is the difference between a barrier reef and a fringing reef?

      

Differentiate between a barrier reef and a fringing reef.

  

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Maurice
A fringing reefs is a platform which forms when coral polyps start building a reef near the shore while a barrier reef resembles a fringing reef but it is formed a long distance away from the shore and the lagoon that separates the barrier reef from the mainland is deeper and wider
maurice.mutuku answered the question on June 8, 2017 at 06:32


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