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I SUPPOSE it will be expected of me that I should answer the two objections raised by Captain Wharton (May 22, p. 81), viz. (1) that he knows of no steep submarine reef-slopes exceeding 4000 feet in height; and (2) that the lagoons could not be so shallow as they are if we assumed any extensive positive shifting of the coast-line.
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VON LENDENFELD, R. Coral Reefs, Fossil and Recent. Nature 42, 148 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042148a0
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