Fig. 6.

Schematic cross-section of Mogadishu coast: (1) bioturbated quartzose sand with bivalves and gastropods overlain by skeletal sand; (2) well sorted quartzose sand, with gastropod and bivalve infauna, covered by coarse skeletal sand showing several coral colonies in growth position, topped by rubble, mainly of coral remains often encrusted by red algae; (3) assemblage of corals and encrusting red corallinaceans, in places with spur and groove features, topped by coral rubble; (4) eolianites and mobile dunes, rich in Achatina and Georgia shells; (5) abraded flat encrusted by corallinaceans and bordered by small fringes of branching and massive Porites; (6) erosion remnant colonized by both massive and small branching corals; (7) Thalassodendron seagrass bed; (8) Porites lutea knob; (9) Millepora thicket; (10) shifting substrate encrusted by corals, corallinaceans and sponges