Several of the atolls in this Archipelago are so related to each other in form and position, that at the first glance one is led to suspect that they have originated in the Disseverment of a single one.
"Coral-Reefs"
Darwin, Charles
A perfect series such as we have here traced, impresses the mind with an idea of actual change; and it will hereafter be seen, that the theory of subsidence, with the upward growth of the coral, modified by accidents of probable occurrence, will account for the occasional Disseverment of large atolls.
"Coral-Reefs"
Darwin, Charles
The effect of the continued subsidence of a great barrier-reef of this kind, and its probable conversion into a chain of separate atolls, will be noticed, when we discuss the apparent progressive Disseverment of the larger Maldiva atolls.
"Coral-Reefs"
Darwin, Charles