The coral layers are dominated by either scattered domal and thick lamellar
colonies of Diploria spp., in life position or elkhorn Acropora palmata
represented by up to 2-m-thick coral patches or coral breccia. An irregular
erosive surface incises up to 2 m depth into the top of Unit 1. Unit
2 consists of the three following layers. Scattered thick lamellar
Diploria sp. and domal Orbicella colonies in life position, columnar Orbicella
spp. patches up to 4 m thick and 100 m long, and rare, scattered
Acropora palmata. Coral patches form bioherms and are surrounded
and overlain by m-thick-bedded, coarse-grained calcarenites
with clay, and by dm-to-m-thick-bedded and clayey, sand-supported
red breccia. These breccia include pebbles from the substratum, dm-toover-
m-sized coral fragments, and a few bioclasts.