On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:44:52 -0700 (PDT), George
wrote:

On Jul 2, 12:49*am, Desertphile
wrote:

What is confusing you is that the islands suffer from erosion.

No.

A short search by Google will show you that indeed the coral island
suffer from erosion and generally after the storm season.

That's nice. The topic is sea level rise.

101 Coral island
Coral islands are built upon volcanoes that these selfsame storms
have, over the eons, worn them down to sea level from where they are
built up again by the coral polyps.
With the detrius from Coconut palms and Mangroves and wave action the
reef islands can reach to 10 or so feet above sea level.
But so can king tides and wind powered waves.


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