File:The atoll of Funafuti; borings into a coral reef and the results, being the report of the Coral Reef Committee of the Royal Society (1904) (14762635691).jpg
DescriptionThe atoll of Funafuti; borings into a coral reef and the results, being the report of the Coral Reef Committee of the Royal Society (1904) (14762635691).jpg
Text Appearing Before Image: (1) Swallow-hole near the IMangrove Swamp, Funafuti. (Seep. 71.) Text Appearing After Image: (2) Xegro-heads on Shore, Fatato Islet. THE GEOLOGY OF FUNAFUTI. 69 It will be noticed that in the sections of the north, east, and south poitions ofthe atoll the Ilcliopora caridca reef is shown in all cases to be the foundation rock.As regards its boundary lagoonwards it does not in all cases terminate at the lowclift at the edge of the lagoon platform, but can be traced for some little depthon the bottom of the lagoon below low tide. In the northern portions of the lagoonthe dead Hdiopora ccerulaa merges in places into the living lleliopora ccBrulca, whichin that part of the atoll covers large areas of the floor of the lagoon. As regardsthe development of the old lleliopora ccBrulea reef on the ocean side, one of us(Mr. G. Sweet) discovered that it extended under the Hurricane Bank in severalplaces below a thin crust of dead Lit/iothamnion, while its extension to considerablybeyond the outer edge of the Hurricane Bank was ascertained by blasting the intenselyhard surface of the oce
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