The ring-shaped coral islands known as atolls, like this one in the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean, may trace their formation to sea levels repeatedly rising and falling over hundreds of ...

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Islands form in three main ways. Continental islands are created when land is cut off from a continent as melting ice caps raise the sea level and one-time surface connections are flooded. Volcanic ...

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New research on the formation and evolution of coral atolls may disprove one of Charles Darwin's most controversial theories. Darwin's 1842 theory said that coral atolls -- the ring-shaped reefs that ...

Almost 200 years ago, during his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin charted reef systems around the world, many of them with astonishing accuracy. On the basis of his observations, he formed a ...

HOUSTON - (Oct. 12, 2020) - Marine geologist and oceanographer André Droxler knows Charles Darwin's theory about atolls is incorrect. But Droxler, who's studied coral reefs for more than 40 years, ...