This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...much water. In consequence, the fish living there have little use for eyes, and some have none. The mud which covers the bottom is in many places made up of the shells of tiny animals, many of them even smaller than a pinhead. Some of the chalk used in schools was just such mud before it was raised to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...much water. In consequence, the fish living there have little use for eyes, and some have none. The mud which covers the bottom is in many places made up of the shells of tiny animals, many of them even smaller than a pinhead. Some of the chalk used in schools was just such mud before it was raised to form rock layers on the dry land. Mountains in the Oceans.--While most of the bottom of the sea is a plain, some parts are not so level. Here and there are mountain peaks, and chains of islands, extending above the sea far away from the continents. Many of these are portions of mountain chains rising above the water; but many, like the Hawaiian Islands, are volcanoes which have been built up by lava flowing from the interior of the earth (p. 125) Fig. 117. A piece of coral, with the polyps projecting from the hard coral like a bunch of flowers. Fig. 112. The southern hemisphere, showing the water surrounding the south pole. Notice that the Antarctic is not separated by land from the other oceans. SOUTH POLE Fig. 113. The Atlantic Ocean. A part of the globe. What continents and oceans are shown? Coral Islands.--In the open ocean there is another interesting kind of island known as the coral island (Fig. 118). Some very tiny creatures, called coral polyps, build hard, limy coral, such as you have no doubt seen. Where the ocean water is warm, as in the torrid zone, these little animals live in immense numbers, millions of them around a FlG-118-single island. A ring-like coral island, .., ... called an atoll, in the Each polyp resembles a fully open ocean. blossomed flower; and they vary greatly in color, being white, pink, purple, red, yellow, brown, and many other colors. It is a truly beautiful sight to see them spread out in the...
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