Australian Museum Journal Rock specimens from Funafuti. II. Rock specimens
- Shortform:
- Cooksey, 1896, Aust. Mus. Mem. 3(2): 73–78
- Author(s):
- Cooksey, T.
- Year published:
- 1896
- Title:
- Rock specimens from Funafuti. II. Rock specimens
- Serial title:
- Australian Museum Memoir
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 2
- Start page:
- 73
- End page:
- 78
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1967.3.1896.488
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 21 December 1896
- Cover date:
- 21 December 1896
- ISSN:
- 0067-1967
- CODEN:
- AUNMA5
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 20 February 2009
- Available online:
- 09 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 488
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (24kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (343kb PDF)
Abstract
The following are brief notes on the rock specimens collected by Mr. C. Hedley:
Coarse Sand. A specimen of coarse sand from the western sea beach of the Atoll, consists principally of waterworn fragments of coral and coral rock, comminuted or small shells, the tests of the Foraminifera Orbitolites cornplanata, Tinoporus baculatus, and to a smaller extent Polytrema muriaceum, Amphistegina lessonii, and a few fragments of Echinoderms. It is entirely calcareous.