NASA shared a black-and-white image from the Curiosity rover’s ChemCam Remote Micro Imager that showed a small, coral-like rock formation on the floor of Gale Crater. The telescopic photo, taken on ...
The ring-shaped coral islands known as atolls, like this one in the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean, may trace their formation to sea levels repeatedly rising and falling over hundreds of ...
DIEGO GARCIA is a typical atoll; a narrow strip of land varying in width from a mile to 30 yards, nearly completely encircles a lagoon of irregular shape. The lagoon is open to the ocean towards the ...
CAPTAIN WHARTON in his interesting paper satisfactorily explains a condition of reef-growth previously little known and but imperfectly understood. I was pleased to learn that Mr. Bourne's ...
New research on the formation and evolution of coral atolls may disprove one of Charles Darwin's most controversial theories. Darwin's 1842 theory said that coral atolls -- the ring-shaped reefs that ...
Coral eggs are rich in waxy fat, which provides energy during development, and buoyancy, helping them float to the ocean surface during spawning. Photo by Heyward & Negri, AIMS Once a year, shortly ...
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