 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...  La Belle Assemblée - Página 581818Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1866 - 578 páginas
...sometimes of a blue colour. The growth of coral appears to cease when no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, until the top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the animalcules have no power... | |
 | George William Fitch - 1867 - 142 páginas
...creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef rises in the form of a gigantic cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to carry its operations, and the reef, consequently, no longer extends itself upward. The surrounding... | |
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - 1871 - 506 páginas
...creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef rises in the form of a gigantic cauliflower, till its top has gained, the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to carry its operations, and the reef, consequently, no longer extends itself upward. The surrounding... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1879 - 572 páginas
...inches long. " 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,...advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts in succession reach the surface, and there stop, forming in time a level field... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1880 - 778 páginas
...inches long. " 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,...advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts in succession reach the surface, and there stop, forming in time a level field... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1881 - 618 páginas
...inches long. "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,...advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts in succession reach the surface, and there stop, forming in time a level field... | |
 | 1818 - 586 páginas
...inches long. ' 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,...advance, and the reef of course no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, in succession, reach the surface, and there stop, forming in time a level... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 páginas
...creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef rises in the form of a gigantic cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to carry its operations, and the reef, consequently, no longer extends itself upwards. The surrounding... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 páginas
...creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef rises in the form of a gigantic cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to carry its operations, and the reef, consequently, no longer extends itself upwards. The surrounding... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 páginas
...creates it is no longer exposed to the washing of the tide. Thus a reef rises in the form of a gigantic cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of...highest tides, above which the worm has no power to carry its operations, and the reef, consequently, no longer extends itself upwards. The surrounding... | |
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