The Beauties of Nature And the Wonders of the World We Live in
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These "atolls" contain a circular basin of yellowish green, clear, shallow water, while outside is the dark blue deep water of the Ocean. The islands' themselves are quite low, with a beach of white sand rising but a few 360 THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE chap.
feet above the level of the water, and bear generally groups of tufted Cocoa Palms.
It used to be supposed that these were the summits of submarme volcanoes on which the coral had grown. But as the reef-making coral does not live at greater dept...hs than about twenty-five fathoms, the immense number of these reefs formed an almost insuperable objection to this theory. The Laccadives and Maldives for instance — mean- ing literally the " lac of or 100,000 islands," and the " thousand islands " — are a series of such atolls, and it was impossible to imagine so great a number of craters, all so nearly of the same altitude.
In shallow tracts of sea, coral reefs no doubt tend to assume the well-known circular form, but the difficulty was to account for the numerous atolls which rise to the surface form the abysses of the ocean, while the coral- forming zoophytes can only live near the surface.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
These "atolls" contain a circular basin of yellowish green, clear, shallow water, while outside is the dark blue deep water of the Ocean. The islands' themselves are quite low, with a beach of white sand rising but a few 360 THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE chap.
feet above the level of the water, and bear generally groups of tufted Cocoa Palms.
It used to be supposed that these were the summits of submarme volcanoes on which the coral had grown. But as the reef-making coral does not live at greater dept...hs than about twenty-five fathoms, the immense number of these reefs formed an almost insuperable objection to this theory. The Laccadives and Maldives for instance — mean- ing literally the " lac of or 100,000 islands," and the " thousand islands " — are a series of such atolls, and it was impossible to imagine so great a number of craters, all so nearly of the same altitude.
In shallow tracts of sea, coral reefs no doubt tend to assume the well-known circular form, but the difficulty was to account for the numerous atolls which rise to the surface form the abysses of the ocean, while the coral- forming zoophytes can only live near the surface.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913 to read onlineMoreLess
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