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THE picturesque beauty of the coral atoll, seated 'mid a waste of troubled waters, with its circlet of living green, its quiet, placid lagoon, and its marvellous submarine zoological gardens, has long been celebrated in the descriptions of voyagers to tropical seas. The attempt to arrive at a correct explanation of the general and characteristic form and features of these reefs and islands has, for an equally long period of time, exercised the ingenuity of thoughtfulmen.
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Structure, Origin, and Distributioin of Coral Reefs and Islands 1 . Nature 39, 424–428 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039424a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/039424a0