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" Carbonic-acid springs are by no means a universal -attendant on volcanic action. The Pacific affords no one fact in support of such an opinion. There are none on Hawaii, where are the most active fires in Polynesia ; and the many explorations of the Society... "
Corals and Coral Islands - Page 100
by James Dwight Dana - 1890 - 440 pages
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American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume 62

Science - 1851 - 510 pages
...Islands have brought none to light. Some of the largest reefs of the Pacific, those of New Holland and New Caledonia, occur where there is no evidence...engaged in contributing to their nutriment. Fish, molluscs, and zoophytes are thus provided with earthy ingredients for their calcareous secretions,...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 52

Science - 1852 - 386 pages
...Islands have brought none to light, Some of the largest reefs of the Pacific, those of New Holland and New Caledonia, occur where there is no evidence...engaged in contributing to their nutriment. Fish, molluscs, and zoophytes are thus provided with earthy ingredients for their calcareous secretions,...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 52

Science - 1852 - 422 pages
...those of New Holland and New Caledonia, occur where there ia no evidence of former volcanic action. t The currents of the Pacific are constantly bearing...engaged in contributing to their nutriment. Fish, molluscs, and zoophytes are thus provided with earthy ingredients for their calcareous secretions,...
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On Coral Reefs and Islands

James Dwight Dana - Coral reefs and islands - 1853 - 152 pages
...Islands have brought none to light. Some of the largest reefs of the Pacific, those of New Holland and New Caledonia, occur where there is no evidence...is thus engaged in contributing to their nutriment. Pish, molluscs, and zoophytes are thus provided with earthy ingredients for their calcareous secretions,...
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The Southern Review, Volume 14

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1873 - 310 pages
...all the ingredients of coral are actually contained in the waters of the ocean.' Dana says, again : ' The currents of the Pacific are constantly bearing...ingredients for their calcareous secretions, if their food fails of giving the necessary amount ; and by means of the powers of animal life, bones, shells, and...
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Coral Lands, Volume 1

H. Stonehewer Cooper - Natural history - 1880 - 386 pages
...currents of the Pacific are constantly bringing new supplies of sea-water (on which the tiny insects live) over the growing coral beds, and the whole ocean is thus engaged in contributing to their nutriment. The coral-reefs around the islands are guardians of the low lands against the incursions of the sea....
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The Coral Lands of the Pacific: Their Peoples and Their Products

H. Stonehewer Cooper - Fiji - 1882 - 490 pages
...currents of the Pacific are constantly bringing new supplies of sea-water (on which the tiny insects live) over the growing coral beds, and the whole ocean is thus engaged in contributing to their nutriment. The coral-reefs around the islands are guardians of the low lands against the incursions of the sea....
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Corals and coral islands

James D. Dana - 1899 - 474 pages
...magnesium, 3 '66 chloride of potassium, 1'18 bromide of sodium, 4*62 sulphate of lime or gypsum, and 5*597 sulphate of magnesia, = 100. This corresponds to about...ingredients for their calcareous secretions, if their food fails of giving the necessary amount ; and, by means of the powers of animal life, bones, shells, and...
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