Hence we must conclude that these pebbles are not often violently disturbed: it should, however, be borne in mind that the growth of corallines is rapid.
Dazzling as marble are these rocks, pointed and honeycombed with constant dashing of the restless sea, tufted with corallines and grey and purple seaweeds in the little pools, but hard and dry and rough above tide level.
Almost all the leaves, excepting those that float on the surface, are so thickly incrusted with corallines as to be of a white colour.
It follows that, after the upper valve of the Crania fell off, the surface of the attached valve must have remained exposed long enough to allow of the growth of the whole coralline, since corallines do not live imbedded in the mud.
In regard to the rate at which the corallines build their cells there is some diversity of opinion--some asserting that the process is imperceptible, while others state as positively that it is rapid.
For although the corallines might continue to build during the whole time of subsidence, it were utterly impossible that the coral island, with its luxuriant herbage, could be formed until that subsidence should have ceased.
All the lithophytes except the corallinesare animals.
They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.
The busy corallines before mentioned are so numerous in the South Seas that they build their coral walls everywhere.
When corallines (as they are called) set about building an island, they lay the foundation on the top of a submarine mountain.
Our bottle moved along with the slow but majestic flow of one of those mighty currents which are begotten among the hot isles of the Pacific, where the corallines love to build their tiny dwellings and rear their reefs and groves.
GENUS ^Halimeda^ This genus resembles the corallines externally, and is abundant on coral reefs.
The corallines are singular in that they are incrusted with lime and resemble corals.
The fortifications of Jaffna were built by the Dutch, from blocks of breccia quarried far from the sea, and still exhibit, in their worn surface, the outline of the shells and corallines of which they mainly consist.
It follows that, after the upper valve of the Crania fell off, the surface of the attached valve must have remained exposed long enough to allow of the growth of the whole coralline, since corallines do not live imbedded in mud.
The corals and the corallines are familiar examples of this.
Modern zoologists have long separated off from the Corallines of the older writers, a group of animals known as the Sea-Mats, which also are colonies made up of unit individuals.
Polly, looking round; "at least, I don't see corallines working.
True," returned the philosopher, "because the corallines can only work under water.
The hard framework of these interesting corallines is composed principally of carbonate of lime, a mineral substance that dissolves freely in hydrochloric acid (spirits of salt).
It is of a dark-brown colour above, and light below, and makes nests of corallines in rock cavities.
Remove any tufts ofcorallines or other weeds required for study or preservation, and simply place them, pro tem.
Tufts of corallines and other weeds should be searched for the small and delicate starfishes that live among them, and any stones that may cover the bottom of the pool should be lifted.
It follows that, after the upper valve of the Crania fell off, the surface of the attached valve must have remained exposed long enough to allow of the growth of the whole coralline, sincecorallines do not live embedded in mud.
The young cells at the end of the branches of these corallines contain quite immature polypi, yet the vulture-heads attached to them, though small, are in every respect perfect.
But, the Captain says it must be quite dry," interposed his sister, somewhat appeased by the praise bestowed on her corallines for the wholesale condemnation her collection had received.
The corallines near the shore were finely developed: each bunch, like a tropical tree, formed a small zoological museum; and they supplied a variety of animalculae, including a tiny shrimp.
The material is the normal Secondary formation, sulphates and carbonates of lime supporting modern corallines and conglomerates of shell.
Some of these specimens contain corallines and terebratulae; and at the lower end of the defile there are horizontal strata of limestone, covered by a thin layer of flinty slate.
Bluish-gray marl, impregnated with quartz, forming a moderately hard stone, and containing corallines (amplexus.
It follows that, after the upper valve of the Crania fell off, the surface of the attached valve must have remained exposed long enough to allow of the growth of the whole corraline, since corallines do not live imbedded in mud.
The young cells at the end of the branches of thesecorallines contain quite immature polypi, yet the vulture heads attached to them, though small, are in every respect perfect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corallines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
