fringing reef

How to use fringing reef in a sentence

• Thus a barrier reef may be formed by the seaward growth of a fringing reef upon the talus of its sea face.

  The Elements of Geology | William Harmon Norton

• The structure of the rocky accumulation in the encircling reefs and in the atolls is essentially the same as in the fringing reef.

  Autobiography and Selected Essays | Thomas Henry Huxley

• The origin and mode of formation of a fringing reef, such as that just described, are plain enough.

  Autobiography and Selected Essays | Thomas Henry Huxley

• We had driven on to a small inner reef—a portion, probably, of what was once the fringing reef of the continent.

  Twice Lost | W.H.G. Kingston

• In the first place, you perceive it forms a kind of fringe round the island, and is therefore called a "fringing reef."

  Coral and Coral Reefs | Thomas H. Huxley