Coral Reefs and Atolls: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute at Boston February 1930 |
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... Low Spring Tide • Frontispiece II . The Fringing Reef off Anse Royale , Seychelles , showing Boat Passes III . Breakers and Edge Zone of the Seaward Reef , showing Buttresses and Fissures 66 • IV . Addu Atoll , Maldives : Seaward Beach ...
... Low Spring Tide • Frontispiece II . The Fringing Reef off Anse Royale , Seychelles , showing Boat Passes III . Breakers and Edge Zone of the Seaward Reef , showing Buttresses and Fissures 66 • IV . Addu Atoll , Maldives : Seaward Beach ...
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... low tide level , but with true coral dominant over plant growth and no well - defined edge . Off islands in coral regions there is seldom a greater rise and fall of tide than five to six feet , and the barrier accordingly forms a most ...
... low tide level , but with true coral dominant over plant growth and no well - defined edge . Off islands in coral regions there is seldom a greater rise and fall of tide than five to six feet , and the barrier accordingly forms a most ...
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... low tide level and always seeming to be increas- ing in dimensions . It is necessary to give a somewhat detailed description of the islets of atolls , which may extend from within 100 yards of the seaward edge of their reef to the same ...
... low tide level and always seeming to be increas- ing in dimensions . It is necessary to give a somewhat detailed description of the islets of atolls , which may extend from within 100 yards of the seaward edge of their reef to the same ...
Common terms and phrases
50 fathoms Addu Atoll Agassiz algæ animals banks Barrier Reef beach bottom branching carbon cells central Chagos channels charted coconut colonies colour continental coral growth coral islands coral islets coral reefs corallum covered Crossland deep deposits depth Diego Garcia dredged elevated coral elevated limestone encircling reefs existence extending fathoms feet Fiji fish formation fringing reef Fulanga Funafuti growing Halimeda incrusting Indian Ocean Indo-Pacific islets lagoon lagoon floor lagoon shoals land larvæ lime limestone living low tide Maldives masses material miles Millepora molluscs Nazareth Bank nullipores ocean floor organisms Pacific plants Plate plateaus polyps reef builders reef corals reef edge reef flat rock Rotuma round sand sandy sea-water seaward edge seaward flat seaward slope Seychelles shells shore showing skeleton species submarine subsidence surface reefs Tahiti tentacles theory tide level Tonga topography true corals Tuamotu usually varying volcanic islands Zool