Natural Transport of Stones and Marine Animals

Abstract

AN article on the “Transport of Stones by Attached Seaweed” in NATURE of Feb. 8 suggests some interesting lines of thought. During the last two years, I have explored some 600 miles of coast in Western Australia, but have seen nothing comparable to the cases cited below or in the paper quoted, the only feature of interest in this connexion being the Cymodocea drift; the long ribbon-like leaves are rolled together by the waves and masses of several tons commonly present a wall two feet high and a chain long to the waves, and so give the beach a temporary degree of permanence, with shallow temporary pools on the landward side.