Letters to Editor
nature 13, 510-511 (27 April 1876) | doi:10.1038/013510b0
On the Formation of Coral Sand
JOHN MUNRO
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IN the best books on geology one finds that the formation of coral sand is attributed to trituration by the force of the surf, the waste of shells and minute globigerinse, and even to the droppings of those fishes which are said to browse upon the living coral.
