 The above experiments appear to prove conclusively that the surface fauna of the sea is really limited to a comparatively narrow belt in depth, and that there is no intermediate belt, so to speak, of animal life, between those living on the bottom, or...  Nature - Page 302edited by - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - 770 pages
...really limited to a comparatively narrow belt in depth, and that there is no intermediate belt, ÍQ to speak, of animal life between those living on the...kind are known to occur in birds, fishes, mollusks, Salf<r, insects, crabs, shrimps, and worms. None of the animals whose remains are found in geological... | |
 | Geologists' Association - 1883 - 472 pages
...hardly any. A. Agassiz considers that certain experiments " appear to prove that the surface fauna of the sea is really limited to a comparatively narrow...the bottom or close to it and the surface pelagic fa1ma."f It amounts to this, therefore, that, in the ocean, life is restricted to waters near the top,... | |
 | 1884 - 660 pages
...certain that there is no intermediate belt of animal life of any kind between those forms which live on the bottom or close to it, and the surface pelagic fauna ; that, in fact, the surface fauna of the sea is really limited to a comparatively narrow belt in point... | |
 | Angelo Heilprin - 1887 - 494 pages
...fathoms], and that there is no intermediate belt, so to speak, of animal life between those animals living on the bottom or close to it, and the surface pelagic fauna."4' Beyond a depth of one hundred fathoms nothing was found. On the other hand, the numerous... | |
 | Alexander Agassiz - 1888 - 418 pages
...hundred and fifty fathoms). The above experiments appear to prove conclusively that the surface fauna of the sea is really limited to a comparatively narrow...bottom, or close to it, and the surface pelagic fauna. It seems natural to suppose that this surface fauna only sinks out of reach of the disturbances of... | |
 | Carl Chun, Karl Chun - 1888 - 108 pages
...eomparatively narrow belt in depth, and that there is no intermedinte belt, so to spenk , of animnl life between those living on the bottom, or close to it, and the surface pelagic fauna." :') Gaetano Chierchia. Collezioni per stndj di scienze nntiirali. Kivistn marittima sett. oft. e nov.... | |
 | 1888 - 1132 pages
...regard to the problem of the existence of characteristic nomadic life in intermediate depths of the sea. life, between those living on the bottom or close to it and the surface fauna." This statement from such a high authority in the study of marine zoology would seem to effectually... | |
 | Angelo Heilprin - 1907 - 458 pages
...fathoms], and that there is no intermediate belt, so to speak, of animal life between those animals living on the bottom or close to it, and the surface pelagic fauna."" Beyond a depth of one hundred fathoms nothing was found. On the other hand, the numerous observations... | |
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