For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.
The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans. - James Dwight Dana
The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.
- James Dwight Dana
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science, it has bee… - James Dwight Dana
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science, it has bee…
Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the orig… - James Dwight Dana
Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the orig…
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, a… - James Dwight Dana
Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, a…
The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow a… - James Dwight Dana
The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow a…
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sher… - James Dwight Dana
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sher…
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made har… - James Dwight Dana
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made har…
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcani… - James Dwight Dana
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcani…
The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate… - James Dwight Dana
The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate…
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