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... Reefs - Whit- sunday Island - Bolabola - Formation of Atolls and Bar- rier Reefs , ยท CHAPTER XII . - 287 Organic Remains - Infusoria in Flint - Age of the Earth- Minerals and Fossils - Imbedding and Preservation of Or- ganic Bodies ...
... Reefs - Whit- sunday Island - Bolabola - Formation of Atolls and Bar- rier Reefs , ยท CHAPTER XII . - 287 Organic Remains - Infusoria in Flint - Age of the Earth- Minerals and Fossils - Imbedding and Preservation of Or- ganic Bodies ...
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... reef , were carried away by the force of the sea , and thrown over a rising ledge to the distance of twelve or fifteen paces , and an anchor weighing 22 cwt . was thrown up upon the rock . We are informed by Mr. Stevenson , that drift ...
... reef , were carried away by the force of the sea , and thrown over a rising ledge to the distance of twelve or fifteen paces , and an anchor weighing 22 cwt . was thrown up upon the rock . We are informed by Mr. Stevenson , that drift ...
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... reef of rocks from five to thirty fathoms under water . The eruption of June 11th was on the island , a distance of 200 miles from Nyoe , when the crater of Skapta Jokul emitted a torrent of lava which flowed down into the river Skap ...
... reef of rocks from five to thirty fathoms under water . The eruption of June 11th was on the island , a distance of 200 miles from Nyoe , when the crater of Skapta Jokul emitted a torrent of lava which flowed down into the river Skap ...
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... reefs of coral rocks are formed , and mountain masses of calcareous matter produced . They be- long to the order Coraliferi , or coral - making , and the class Polypi of Cuvier's Animal Kingdom . The mode of increase of the polyparia is ...
... reefs of coral rocks are formed , and mountain masses of calcareous matter produced . They be- long to the order Coraliferi , or coral - making , and the class Polypi of Cuvier's Animal Kingdom . The mode of increase of the polyparia is ...
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... reefs and islands . " We may compare " observes Mr. Lyell , " the opera- tion of these zoophytes in the ocean to the effects produced on a smaller scale upon the land by the plants which generate peat . In the case of the Spagnum ...
... reefs and islands . " We may compare " observes Mr. Lyell , " the opera- tion of these zoophytes in the ocean to the effects produced on a smaller scale upon the land by the plants which generate peat . In the case of the Spagnum ...
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