Distribution of… Coral Reefs, together with… active Volcanos—Darwin 1895 map
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'Shewing the Distribution of the Different Kinds of Coral Reefs, Together with the Position of the Active Volcanos in the Map'
Charles Darwin’s landmark thematic world map classifies coral formations in original blue and red outline colour and plots active volcanoes across the tropical Pacific and Indian oceans. Darwin adapted an 1835 base map by C. Gressier, translated its names, converted longitude to Greenwich and overlaid evidence assembled from Admiralty charts, voyages and correspondence. The result was integral to a major scientific argument. Darwin supplied the first comprehensive, testable explanation of how fringing reefs, barrier reefs and atolls were successive stages in one process: coral grows upward near the surface while volcanic islands and the surrounding ocean floor slowly subside, leaving ring-shaped reefs after the central land has disappeared. The map uses global distribution to connect reef form with crustal movement, making an invisible geological history legible at a glance. First published in 1842 in The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, a foundational work of modern reef geology and biogeography, this is a later 1895 printing engraved by J. & C. Walker.
Size 21 x 61 cm | 8.5 x 24.0 inches
Date Published: 1895
Type: Antique engraved map with printed colour
Author: Darwin, Charles
Publication: The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
Condition: Good |
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