Now let the coral polypes come and perch on the shore and build a fringing reef, which will stop when they come to 20 or 25 fathoms, and you will have a fringing reef like that round the island in the illustration.
Now such a structure as this is what is termed a "fringing reef.
In the first place, you perceive it forms a kind of fringe round the island, and is therefore called a "fringing reef.
When the structure of a fringing reef is investigated, the bottom of the lagoon is found to be covered with fine whitish mud, which results from the breaking up of the dead corals.
The origin and mode of formation of a fringing reef, such as that just described, are plain enough.
The Australasian's gig entered the lagoon through the fringing reef by its narrow seaward mouth, and rowed steadily for the landing place on the main island.
Pitch dark as it was, he had no difficulty in deciding at once by the general look of things that they had reached a fringing reef, such as he was already familiar with in the Marquesas and elsewhere.
Outside it came the lagoon, with its placid ring of glassy water surrounding the circular island, and separated from the sea by an equally circular belt of fringing reef, covered thick with waving stems of picturesque cocoanut.
The outer edge of a barrier reef is much farther from the shore than that of a fringing reef, and the channel between it and the land is much deeper.
At first the coral growth would form a fringing reef clinging to its shores.
Outside this extends a fringing reef, which forms a submerged platform, on which there is some three or four fathoms of water, and which has a mean width radially of about a quarter of a mile.
Our gropings over the platform of fringing reef, which formed the foreshore at low water, resulted in the acquisition of several species of holothurians.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fringing reef" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
