Rhodolith beds along the southeastern Mediterranean inner shelf: Implications for past depositional environments

The inner structure of multitaxonomic boxwork rhodoliths from a seabed located off of the Northern Israeli coast was explored as a tool to understand past depositional environments of the shallow littoral zone. Studied rhodoliths consist of superimposed, successive growth stages formed by different encrusting biota. The types of growth stages include fruticose encrusting coralline algae layers, and layers of serpulid tubes, grainstone or...