Sentences with phrase «rock reefs built»

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«In 1971 we built the first sea wall... from coral reef rocks and rocks from the hill.

The rock regatta picked up corals and other reef - building species while passing near reefs near Fiji, Vanuatu and elsewhere in the western Pacific along the journey, Bryan said.

The rain then interacts with silicate - rocks and forms carbonate rocks in the silicate weathering process — or, in a planet that is so filled with life as ours, tiny organisms can grab the carbon - dioxide dissolved in the ocean to build shells or coral reefs.

So - called base rock on which live coral builds more coral is nothing more than coral reefs that died hundreds, thousands or perhaps millions of years ago.

Just south is the Piedras Blancas (meaning «white rocks») beach, where the 110 ′ Piedras Blanca Lighthouse, built in 1874, still stands as a beacon warning boaters and fishermen of the perilous reefs and rocky shores.

Robert Stevenson, a young Scotsman and ambitious architect designed the original Bell Rock Lighthouse, but had his plans dismissed by the Northern Lighthouse Board on the basis that the reef was too dangerous to build such a large structure upon, and that it would cost # 40,000.

The Eden Rock has a unique location, built primarily on a rocky prominence thrust into the sea at St. Jean Beach and braced by twin crescents of sandy beach and facing a coral reef.

Coral reefs are formed by the attachment of multicellular invertebrates to rock and limestone build up around land masses.

Coral reefs - Rock - like limestone (calcium carbonate) structures built by corals along ocean coasts (fringing reefs) or on top of shallow, submerged banks or shelves (barrier reefs, atolls), most conspicuous in tropical and sub-tropical oceans.