Adjective : coralline limestone. From Dictionary.com.
These species that are found in coral reefs are called coralline algae. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Hall-Spencer also noted that in acidic seawater a type of algae known as coralline algae - which act as the glue holding coral reefs together - are destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [News]
A smaller calculus, which has been called coralline, is also cylindroid, with a number of brown, rough, crystalline oxalate of lime branches and whitish depressions of carbonate. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
The islands are low-lying and coralline (limestone). From Wordnik.com. [Sulu Archipelago rain forests] Reference
The islands are composed solely of coralline limestone. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
A creamy skin, with a faint coralline tinge in the cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Geographic note: 40 granitic and about 50 coralline islands. From Wordnik.com. [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference
Geography - note: 40 granitic and about 50 coralline islands. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Geography -- note: 40 granitic and about 50 coralline islands. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
This time we ascended the coralline ridge which forms the left jamb. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
The material is the coralline rock common in this part of the island. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
Ammoniacal solution of coralline diluted with water gives carmine red. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
Sometimes there was a little coralline limestone, but no volcanic rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
These pink surfaces are all crustose coralline algae growing on the sea floor. From Wordnik.com. [Biology of early life stage of tropical reef corals] Reference
A newly settled coral recruit of Stylophora pistillata on crustose coralline algae. From Wordnik.com. [Biology of early life stage of tropical reef corals] Reference
The Coastal Plain is flat and coralline and occupies the southern two-thirds of the island. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of Trinidad and Tobago] Reference
It is a square measuring six paces each way, mud and coralline showing traces of plaster outside. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
The whole Rennell area is thought to have been initially deposited as coralline algal limestone and then dolotomized. From Wordnik.com. [East Rennell, Solomon Islands] Reference
For a map of the LME, with 50 and 200 meters (m) isobaths and major coralline areas, see Pauly and Christensen, 1993. From Wordnik.com. [South China Sea large marine ecosystem] Reference
There are also and about 75 small "coralline islands", that is an an island composed in part of coral sand and detritus. From Wordnik.com. [Seychelles] Reference
(December 12th) within the natural pier of coralline, and we were not alone in our misfortune; an English steamer making. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Their isolation and coralline structure contributes to a habitat unique from that of the mainland or other nearby islands. From Wordnik.com. [Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests] Reference
We landed on a beach of hard coralline rock, with rugged cliffs of the same, resembling those of the Ke Islands (Chap. XXIX.). From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
Scatters of the usual fragments lay about, and the blocks of white coralline explained the old names — Whitton, Whitworth, Whitby. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
Ocean acidification has been shown to decrease the rate at which corals and coralline algae secrete their calcium carbonate skeletons. From Wordnik.com. [Coral reef] Reference
As to the vessel, it moved not, and was immovable, as if the coralline polypi had already walled it up with their in destructible cement. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
Offshore, shallow waters are turfed with short tufty seaweeds, deeper water is dominated by the kelp Laminaria pallida and coralline algae. From Wordnik.com. [Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference
The coralline base of the Tuamotus is more than 400 m thick and sits atop eroded volcanic basalt that is between 4 and 18 million years old. From Wordnik.com. [Tuamotu tropical moist forests] Reference
Three marine communities exist around the island: vertical, coralline reefs and pelagic, which are the basis for great biological diversity. From Wordnik.com. [Malpelo Island Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, Colombia] Reference
Located offshore midway between Hong Kong and Taiwan, Pratas Island (Dungsha Tao) is the northernmost coralline island in the South China Sea. From Wordnik.com. [South China Sea Islands] Reference
The exceptions are the lands of recent coralline formation, such as the municipality of San Pedro de Macoris and the southern portion of the commune of Higuey. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
But some varieties of beauty in the coral belong to calmer seas: among others, the Red Sea is noticed for the exquisite loveliness of its coralline formations. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
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