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Massive Corals grow at a rate of .3 to 2 centimeters per year, while branching corals grow at a rate of 10 centimeters per year. It can take about 10,000 years for a full coral reef to form from its larval stage. To give some perspective, the Great Barrier Reef is still a relatively young at 500,000 years, and this most modern form is only 8,000 years old, having developed after the last ice age.

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Short reef much like a fringing reefs but are more sloped (extended out and down). They cover a small area and are discontinuous.

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One of the types of coral reefs, called fringing reefs, reach out towards the open water from the shoreline creating borders around a beach, encircling an island. Barrier reefs are similar, but have more room from their dry homeland, separated by a deep lagoon. An atoll, a more evolved version of a coral reef, comes to be when a fringing reef's mainland subsides underwater and the coral keeps growing upwards until it breaches the open air. Because it once surrounded an island, atolls are circular chain land forms.

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A coral reef first begins to form when a free-swimming coral larvae attach to submerged rocks or other hard surfaces along the edges of islands or continents. Corals can reproduce asexually and/or sexually. In asexual reproduction, new polyps bud off from parent polyps to expand or begin new colonies. Asexual Budding occurs when the parent polyp reaches a certain size and divides.