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    How is an atoll made?

    Question #85838. Asked by author. (Sep 14 07 6:14 AM)


    zbeckabee

    		A couple different theories of which (I believe) Darwin's is assumed more correct.

    Charles Darwin: A fringing coral reef surrounding a volcanic island in the tropical sea will grow upwards as the island subsides (sinks).

    Reginald Aldworth Daly: Islands worn away by erosion developed as coral islands (atolls) as sea level gradually rose from melting of the glaciers.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoll

    Sep 14 07, 8:10 AM

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