Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — Formation of Coral Islands. [ARTICLE]

Formation of Coral Islands.

Prof. Alexander Agassir, who has been investigating the coral islands of the South Pacific, has returned after an expedition lasting several months, with observations that tend to disprove several of .the older theories of the formation of the coral islands and reefs. Prof. Agatslz states that in his opinion the coral forms a crust on some mountain that has sunk into the sea or on sonrte volcanic pile, and In proof of this opinions presents the resuits of borings which in nearly every 'case found the coral to be a comparatively thin layer. The sand, mixing with the coral, makes the reefs, and instead of coral being made, sinking, and then being repfeniehed indefinitely from the surface. Prof. Agassiz considers it a mere cap to submerged mountains and volcanic upheavals.

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