Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3: 1951
Geologists and oceanographers have shown (see descriptions by Hobbs, that islands of Micronesia are of two general types: arcuate and strewn. The Pacific Ocean is surrounded by rising mountain ranges which are arranged in elongated, near-circular arcs.
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