Coral ReefsCharles Darwin
Coral Reefs
by OpenStories
Original author: Charles Darwin
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"Coral Reefs" by Charles Darwin is a scientific monograph published in 1842 that presents his groundbreaking theory of how coral reefs and atolls form. Darwin conceived this theory during the Beagle voyage before even seeing a coral island, proposing that vast areas of ocean crust rise and fall over immense time periods. His observations explained how fringing reefs transform into barrier reefs and eventually into atolls as land slowly subsides beneath the sea, solving a major scientific puzzle of his era.
Coral Reefs, by Charles Darwin. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #2690.
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19 Chapters
- 1.Front Matter513 words
- 2.Appendix: Index1,165 words
- 3.Introduction1,007 words
- 4.Section I: Keeling Atoll5,437 words
- 5.Section II: General Description of Atolls4,604 words
- 6.Section III: Atolls of the Maldiva Archipelago—great Chagos Bank3,135 words
- 7.Chapter II: Barrier Reefs3,407 words
- 8.Chapter III: Fringing or Shore-Reefs3,003 words
- 9.Chapter IV61 words
- 10.Section I: On the Distribution of Coral-Reefs, and on the Conditions4,050 words
- 11.Section II: On the Rate of Growth of Coral-Reefs3,238 words
- 12.Section III: On the Depths at Which Reef-Building Polypifers Can Live2,708 words
- 13.Chapter V11,358 words
- 14.Chapter VI (1)8,748 words
- 15.Chapter VI (2)3,166 words
- 16.Appendix (1)8,937 words
- 17.Appendix (2)8,264 words
- 18.Appendix (3)8,673 words
- 19.Appendix (4)507 words