Coral Reefs and Atolls: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute at Boston February 1930 |
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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