Beautiful and wild section of shore near Ariel Sands, Shore Road, Devonshire Parish, Bermuda showing Boilers and Rim Reef
Beautiful and wild section of shore near Ariel Sands, Shore Road, Devonshire Parish,, Bermuda. Boilers" occur on the southern and southeastern side of the island and are part of the rim reef system. They are small, generally rounded reefs that extend to the sea surface and have waves continuously breaking over them. The rim reefs create a circle along the edge of the lagoon and are formed on the raised rim of the Bermuda platform. They range in depth between 2 and 10 meters. North Rock is an example of a rim reef area. Many different hard corals, especially massive boulder corals such as Brain and Star corals are abundant here, as well as sea rods and sea fans such as the large Gorgonia. Bermuda has been classified as an atoll, but more correctly it should be called a pseudoatoll. This is because the process that formed Bermuda is different than the process that forms an atoll. In Bermuda, sands have collected, been compressed, and turned into rock by a process known as lithification. The land formations of Bermuda are much taller than the formations of the true Pacific atolls.
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Location: Ariel Sands, Shore Road, Devonshire, Bermuda
Photo credit: © John Gaffen 2 / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: bermuda, boilers, breaking, coral, geology, marine, nature, reef, reefs, rollers, sea, shore, tourism, travel, water, waves
