| This is probably the most colourful zone of our inshore waters and rocks are often a warm, pinkish-purple colour, thanks to encrusting algae. |
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| They contained substantial amounts of sand and mud, in addition to encrusting calcareous algae and other oddments. |
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| They are covered in encrusting life and soft corals and often surrounded by big pollack and schooling fish. |
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| The rock was also a little slimy, which was the result of much salt encrusting the facets of every feature. |
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| A shoal of silvery pollack hurried away above some huge boulders covered in brilliant pink and red encrusting algae. |
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| Other faunal elements include colonial and solitary corals, encrusting bryozoans, stromatoporoids, and rare brachiopods. |
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| The photograph below actually depicts a giant clam, Tridacna, from the south Pacific, but notice the pink encrusting material on the outsides of the shell. |
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| Red soldierfish blend into the colourful backdrop of encrusting sponges on the wreck of the Corveta va Ypiranga, a 60m dive at Fernando de Noronha. |
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| They tend to be the big head corals, the encrusting ones, but the reefs would lack the postcard species of the plating and staghorn corals in very large areas. |
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| The effects of 55 years' submersion were apparent from the rusting of plates and fittings and the sponges and soft corals encrusting much of the superstructure. |
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| When I arrived, and removed my glasses to take my helmet off, I found I could see much better without them thanks to the ice crystals encrusting the lenses. |
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| An Ordovician strophomenid brachiopod with encrusting inarticulate brachiopods and a bryozoan. |
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| Cretaceous hardground from Texas with encrusting oysters and borings. |
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| Small encrusting bryozoans are scattered across portions of the vertebra's surface, particularly along the neural canal and parts of the zygapophyses and pleurapophyses. |
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| Encrusting strategies in a Cambrian nonreefal epibenthic community. |
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