Pacific Atolls: A World Apart

Title
Pacific Atolls: A World Apart
Publication Date
2010
Author(s)
Nunn, Patrick
Editor
Editor(s): Piotr Migon
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Springer
Place of publication
Berlin, Germany
Edition
1
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-3055-9_36
UNE publication id
une:7748
Abstract
Atolls are low islands made from biogenic detritus that are scattered across the low-latitude Pacific Ocean. Atolls mark places where reef-fringed volcanic islands were once emerging but then sank slowly allowing the reef to continue growing at the ocean surface, finally forming an atoll. Owing to their low elevation and mostly soft-sediment composition, atolls are among the most vulnerable island environments on Earth. Some may disappear during this century as a result of sea-level rise.
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Citation
Geomorphological Landscapes of the World, p. 349-356
ISBN
9789048130559
9789048130542
Start page
349
End page
356

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