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1. reefs

   A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral or similar relatively stable material, lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water. Many reefs result from natural, abiotic processes—deposition of sand, wave erosion planing down rock outcrops, etc.—but there are also reefs such as the coral reefs of tropical waters formed by biotic processes dominated by corals and coralline algae, and artificial reefs such as shipwrecks and other anthropogenic underwater structures may occur intentionally or as the result of an accident, and sometimes have a designed role in enhancing the physical complexity of featureless sand bottoms, to attract a more diverse assemblage of organisms. Reefs are often quite near to the surface, but not all definitions require this.Earth's largest coral reef system is the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, at a length of over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 miles).

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of reefs in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of reefs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of reefs in a Sentence

1. Clay Trauernicht:

   It’s within our control, potentially, to reduce the impacts that we’re seeing with fires, both in terms of forest loss as well as the impacts on coral reefs.

2. Adam Markham:

   Some Easter Island statues are at risk of being lost to the sea because of coastal erosion, many of the world's most important coral reefs, including in the islands of New Caledonia in the western Pacific, have suffered unprecedented coral bleaching linked to climate change this year. Climate change could eventually even cause some World Heritage sites to lose their status.

3. Wu Shicun:

   The reefs are located near an important commercial shipping route, so there will be continued development to maintain the security of those shipping lanes.

4. Terry Hughes:

   If we go to 3, 4 degrees of global average warming which is tragically the trajectory we are currently on, then there won't be much left of The Great Barrier Reef or any other coral reefs throughout the tropics.

5. Jay Sirois:

   Essentially, what's happening is, two ingredients that are both safe and effective for use in sunscreen are being banned, essentially on the basis of a single study which claims that these ingredients harm coral reefs, this has to be viewed in the wider picture of the significant amount of evidence available that shows there are other, more important causes of coral decline such as global warming, overfishing, pollution and runoff.

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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefs