Coral-rich strata of the Leitha Limestone of Badenian age (Middle Miocene) at the type-locality in Grosshoeflein (Burgenland province, Austria) were re-interpreted from an actualistic viewpoint in comparison with Recent Bahamian and Arabian Gulf coral communities. The investigated outcrop (quarry "Fenk'j is interpreted as a sequence of framebuilding coral carpets and non-framebuilding biostroma...

Coral framework construction and resultant growth fabrics in response to environmental factors were studied in the northern Red Sea, and the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba. The dependence of growth fabric types on sea-floor topography, oceanography and the ecology of constituent coral species was investigated. Five types of coral frameworks and their growth fabrics were differentiated: Acropora reef f...