| Show Oceans Tfcmln With Life I At a recent meeting of the Ertln burgh Royal Society Dr John Murray Mur-ray dlicued the question of time I origin and nature of coral reefs and other carbonate limp formations in recent seas HH first referred to I i experiment which have recently been made regarding tccreUon and lutOI of carbonate of lime C bonnie of lime remains have been I found in great abundance at the cti bottom iu shallow ten but the amount steadily diminishes the depth increaseis until at 4030 fathoms almost every trace hzs disappeared dis-appeared This Is due to solution as the organisms slowly all to the bottom Everywhere within MO fathorux of the surface tha ocean terms with life The Grecly raise I dition was starving within tel feet abundant food which might have been obtained by breaking a holu through the ice ali using a shirt asa as-a drag net Dr Murray then proceeded to ol pre cues his theory of the formation of coral ref bringing forward in reply ply t objections by Dana aol othero some recently obtained facts regard ing the existence of shallow regions In what is on the wholtrdecp water Uesbowed that carbonate of lime eb continually productdin jircat quantities quan-tities In warm tropical water by the action sulphate lime In M lotion MI elide I roducti Tills explains ex-plains the great growth of coral in tropical regions The absence of coral on certain shores in tropical I districts I explained by the uprie of cold water due to Uiu winds blowing off shore His paper was illustrated by an elaborate serins of ion limelight diagrams 1ublic Orm |
