Coral Reefs
by
Charles Darwin
Part 5 out of 5
Freewill.
FRIENDLY group recently elevated.
Friendly archipelago.
FRINGING-REEFS, absent where coast precipitous.
Breached in front of streams.
Described by MM. Quoy and Gaimard.
Not closely attached to shelving coasts.
Of east coast of Africa.
Of Cuba.
Of Mauritius.
On worn down banks of rock.
On banks of sediment.
Their appearance when elevated.
Their growth influenced by currents.
By shallowness of sea.
Galapagos archipelago.
Galega.
GAMBIER islands, section of.
Gambier islands.
Gardner.
Gaspar rico.
GEOLOGICAL COMPOSITION of coral-formations.
Gilbert archipelago.
Gilolo.
Glorioso.
GLOUCESTER Island.
Glover reef.
Gomez.
Gouap.
Goulou.
Grampus.
Gran Cocal.
GREAT CHAGOS BANK, description and theory of.
GREY, Captain, on sandbars.
GROUPING of the different classes of reefs.
Guedes.
HALL, Captain B., on Loo Choo.
HARVEY islands, recently elevated.
HEIGHT of encircled islands.
Hermites.
Hervey or Cook islands.
Hogoleu.
HOLOTHURIAE (Holuthuriae) feeding on coral.
HOUDEN island, height of.
Honduras, reef off.
Horn.
Houtman Abrolhos.
HUAHEINE; alleged proofs of its recent elevation.
Huaheine.
Humphrey.
Hunter.
HURRICANES, effects of, on coral-islands.
Immaum.
Independence.
INDIA, west coast, recently elevated.
India.
IRREGULAR REEFS in shallow seas.
ISLETS of coral-rock, their formation.
Their destruction in the Maldiva atolls.
Jamaica.
Jarvis.
JAVA, recently elevated.
Java.
Johnston island.
Juan de Nova.
Juan de Nova (Madagascar).
Kalatoa.
KAMTSCHATKA, proofs of its recent elevation.
Karkalang.
KEELING atoll, section of reef.
Keeling, south atoll.
North atoll.
Keffing.
Kemin.
Kennedy.
Keppel.
Kumi.
Laccadive group.
LADRONES, or Marianas, recently elevated.
Ladrones archipelago.
LAGOON of Keeling atoll.
LAGOONS bordered by inclined ledges and walls, and theory of their
formation.
Of small atolls filled up with sediment.
LAGOON-CHANNELS within barrier-reefs.
LAGOON-REEFS, all submerged in some atolls, and rising to the surface in
others.
Lancaster reef.
Latte.
Lauglan islands.
LEDGES round certain lagoons.
Lette.
Lighthouse reef.
LLOYD, Mr., on corals refixing themselves.
LOO CHOO, recently elevated.
Loo Choo.
Louisiade.
LOW ARCHIPELAGO, alleged proofs of its recent elevation.
Low archipelago.
LOWNESS of coral-islands.
Loyalty group.
Lucepara.
LUTKE, Admiral, on fissures across coral-islands.
LUZON, recently elevated.
Luzon.
LYELL, Mr., on channels into the lagoons of atolls.
On the lowness of their leeward sides.
On the antiquity of certain corals.
On the apparent continuity of distinct coral-islands.
On the recently elevated beds of the Red Sea.
On the outline of the areas of subsidence.
Macassar strait.
Macclesfield bank.
MADAGASCAR, quick growth of corals at.
Madreporitic rock of.
Madagascar.
Madjiko-sima.
Madura (Java).
Madura (India).
MAHLOS MAHDOO, theory of formation.
MALACCA, recently elevated.
Malacca.
MALCOLMSON, Dr., on recent elevation of W. coast of India.
On recent elevation of Camaran island.
Malden.
MALDIVA atolls, and theory of their formation.
Steepness of their flanks.
Growth of coral at.
Maldiva archipelago.
MANGAIA island.
Recently elevated.
Mangaia.
Mangs.
MARIANAS, recently elevated.
Mariana archipelago.
Mariere.
Marquesas archipelago.
Marshall archipelago.
Marshall island.
Martinique.
Martires.
MARY'S ST., in Madagascar, harbour made in reefs.
Mary island.
Matia, or Aurora.
MATILDA atoll.
MAURITIUS, fringing-reefs of.
Depths at which corals live there.
Recently elevated.
Mauritius.
MAURUA, section of.
Maurua.
MENCHIKOFF atoll.
Mendana archipelago.
Mendana isles.
Mexico, gulf of.
MILLEPORA COMPLANATA at Keeling atoll.
Mindoro.
Mohilla. (Mohila.)
MOLUCCA islands, recently elevated.
Mopeha.
MORESBY, Captain, on boring through coral-reefs.
Morty.
Mosquito coast.
MUSQUILLO atoll.
Mysol.
NAMOURREK group.
Natunas.
NAVIGATOR archipelago, elevation of.
Navigator archipelago.
Nederlandisch.
NELSON, Lieutenant, on the consolidation of coral-rocks under water.
Theory of coral-formations.
On the Bermuda islands.
New Britain.
NEW CALEDONIA, steepness of its reefs.
Barrier-reef of.
New Caledonia.
New Guinea (E. end).
New Guinea (W. end).
New Hanover.
NEW HEBRIDES, recently elevated.
New Hebrides.
NEW IRELAND, recently elevated.
New Ireland.
New Nantucket.
Nicobar islands.
Niouha.
NULLIPORAE at Keeling atoll.
On the reefs of atolls.
On barrier-reefs.
Their wide distribution and abundance.
OBJECTIONS to the theory of subsidence.
Ocean islands.
Ono.
Onouafu. (Onouafou.)
Ormuz.
Oscar group.
OSCILLATIONS of level.
Ouallan, or Ualan. (Oualan.)
OULUTHY atoll.
Outong Java.
Palawan, S.W. coast.
N.W. coast.
Western bank.
Palmerston.
Palmyra.
Paracells.
Paraquas.
Patchow.
Pelew islands.
PEMBA island, singular form of.
Pemba.
Penrhyn.
Peregrino.
PERNAMBUCO, bar of sandstone at.
PERSIAN gulf, recently elevated.
Persian gulf.
PESCADO.
Pescadores.
Peyster group.
Philip.
PHILIPPINE archipelago, recently elevated.
Philippine archipelago.
Phoenix.
Piguiram.
Pitcairn.
PITT'S bank.
Pitt island.
Platte.
Pleasant.
PORITES, chief coral on margin of Keeling atoll.
Postillions.
POUYNIPETE.
Its probable subsidence.
Pouynipete.
Pratas shoal.
Proby.
Providence.
Puerto Rico.
Pulo Anna.
PUMICE floated to coral-islands.
Pylstaart.
PYRARD DE LAVAL, astonishment at the atolls in the Indian Ocean.
QUOY AND GAIMARD, depths at which corals live.
Description of reefs applicable only to fringing-reefs.
RANGE of atolls.
Rapa.
Rearson.
RED SEA, banks of rock coated by reefs.
Proofs of its recent elevation.
Supposed subsidence of.
Red Sea.
REEFS, irregular in shallow seas.
Rising to the surface in some lagoons and all submerged in others.
Their distribution.
Their absence from some coasts.
Revilla-gigedo.
RING-FORMED REEFS of the Maldiva atolls, and theory of.
Rodriguez.
Rosario.
Rose island.
Rotches.
Rotoumah.
Roug.
Rowley shoals.
RUPPELL, Dr., on the recent deposits of Red Sea.
Sable, ile de.
Sahia de Malha.
St. Pierre.
Sala.
Salomon archipelago. (Solomon.)
SAMOA, or Navigator archipelago, elevation of.
Samoa archipelago.
SAND-BARS parallel to coasts.
Sandal-wood.
SANDWICH archipelago, recently elevated.
Sandwich archipelago.
Sanserot.
Santa-Cruz group.
SAVAGE island, recently elevated.
Savage.
Savu.
Saya, or Sahia de Malha.
Scarborough shoal.
SCARUS feeding on corals.
Schouten.
Scilly.
SCORIAE floated to coral-islands.
Scott's reef.
SECTIONS of islands encircled by barrier-reefs.
Of Bolabola.
SEDIMENT in Keeling lagoon.
In other atolls.
Injurious to corals.
Transported from coral-islands far seaward.
Seniavine.
Serangani.
Seychelles.
SHIP-BOTTOM quickly coated with coral.
SMYTH island.
SOCIETY archipelago, stationary condition of.
Alleged proofs of recent elevation.
Society archipelago.
Socotra.
Solor.
SOOLOO islands, recently elevated.
Sooloo islands.
Souvaroff.
Spanish.
SPONGE, depths at which found.
Starbuck. (Slarbuck.)
STONES transported in roots of trees.
STORMS, effects of, on coral-islands.
STUTCHBURY, Mr., on the growth of an Agaricia.
On upraised corals in Society archipelago.
SUBSIDENCE of Keeling atoll.
Extreme slowness of.
Areas of, apparently elongated.
Areas of immense.
Great amount of.
Suez, gulf of.
Sulphur islands.
SUMATRA, recently elevated.
Sumatra.
Sumbawa.
SURF favourable to the growth of massive corals.
Swallow shoal.
Sydney island.
TAHITI, alleged proofs of its recent elevation.
Tahiti.
TEMPERATURE of the sea at the Galapagos archipelago.
Tenasserim.
Tenimber island.
Teturoa.
THEORIES on coral-formations.
THEORY OF subsidence, and objections to.
THICKNESS, vertical, of barrier-reefs.
Thomas, St.
Tikopia.
TIMOR, recently elevated.
Timor.
Timor-laut.
Tokan-Bessees.
Tongatabou.
Tonquin.
Toubai.
Toufoa. (Toofoa.)
Toupoua.
TRADITIONS OF CHANGE in coral-islands.
TRIDACNAE embedded in coral-rock.
Left exposed in the Low archipelago.
TUBULARIA, quick growth of.
Tumbelan.
Turneffe reef.
Turtle.
Ualan.
VANIKORO, section of.
Its state and changes in its reefs.
Vanikoro.
Vine reef.
Virgin Gorda.
Viti archipelago.
VOLCANIC islands, with living corals on their shores.
Matter, probably not associated with thick masses of coral-rock.
VOLCANOES, authorities for their position on the map.
Their presence determined by the movements in progress.
Absent or extinct in the areas of subsidence.
Waigiou.
Wallis island.
Washington.
Well's reef.
WELLSTEAD, Lieutenant, account of a ship coated with corals.
WEST INDIES, banks of sediment fringed by reefs.
Recently elevated.
West Indies.
WHITSUNDAY island, view of.
Changes in its state.
WILLIAMS, Rev. J., on traditions of the natives regarding coral-islands.
On antiquity of certain corals.
Wolchonsky.
Wostock.
Xulla islands.
York island.
Yucutan, coast of.
ZONES of different kinds of corals outside the same reefs.
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