 The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and...  Outlines of Physical Geography - Página 8por George William Fitch - 1867 - 112 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1818
...when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises itt the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | 1818
...the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Accordingly, a reef rises in tlie form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest 'tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef, of course, no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, iu succession,... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818
...cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | 1818
...cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | Basil Hall, Herbert John Clifford - 1818 - 222 páginas
...cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance* and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1818 - 201 páginas
...cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | 1818
...when the worm is no longer exposed to the wash* ing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained ! the level of...highest tides, above •which ; the worm has no power to advance, and ! the reef, of course, no longer extends itself i upwards." — Lord Amhenft Embatsy tt... | |
 | 1818
...cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power ,to advance, and the reef of course no long£r .extends itself upwards. The other parts, in successiqn,... | |
 | 1818
...when the worm is''ritf longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus, a reef rises in tjie form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
 | Basil Hall - 1820 - 259 páginas
...cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach... | |
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