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II.—How the Appearance of a Fault may be Produced without Fracture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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The general structure and mode of growth of coral reefs and islands is well understood; but there is one attendant circumstance of considerable geological interest, to which, so far as I am aware, attention has never been called. This is the peculiar stratigraphic relation of the different strata in the reef to their chronological equivalents in the deposits of the surrounding ocean; a relation due to the comparatively rapid growth of the reef as a whole.

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