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Coral Reefs
Charles Darwin
How does a ring of living rock rise from water miles deep? Darwin answered it aboard the Beagle, tracing atolls, barrier reefs, and fringing reefs to the slow subsidence of the ocean floor. From Keeling Atoll to the Great Chagos Bank, here is the theory that made sense of the tropics' coral architecture. Read the geology that reshaped a science.
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20 chapters
- 1CORAL REEFS
- 2CONTENTS
- 3DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 4DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.
- 5THE STRUCTURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL REEFS.
- 6INTRODUCTION.
- 7CHAPTER I. ATOLLS OR LAGOON-ISLANDS.
- 8SECTION I.—KEELING ATOLL.
- 9SECTION II.—GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF ATOLLS.
- 10SECTION III.—ATOLLS OF THE MALDIVA ARCHIPELAGO—GREAT CHAGOS BANK.
- 11CHAPTER II. BARRIER REEFS.
- 12CHAPTER III. FRINGING OR SHORE-REEFS.
- 13CHAPTER IV. ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND GROWTH OF CORAL-REEFS.
- 14SECTION II.—ON THE RATE OF GROWTH OF CORAL-REEFS.
- 15SECTION III.—ON THE DEPTHS AT WHICH REEF-BUILDING POLYPIFERS CAN LIVE.
- 16CHAPTER V. THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF CORAL-REEFS.
- 17CHAPTER VI. ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF CORAL-REEFS WITH REFERENCE TO THE THEORY OF THEIR FORMATION.
- 18APPENDIX.
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