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Scientists Drilled The Bottom Of Great Blue Hole And Uncovered 5,700 Years Of History
The history of the Great Blue Hole in the Caribbean is being revealed by a 30-meter (98-foot) sediment core taken from the ...
Smithsonian Magazine4y
Why Some Geologists Say Charles Darwin’s Theory of Coral Atoll Formation Is Wrong
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 ...
Big Island Now8d
Ecologists, cultural practitioners oppose U.S. military landing test rockets at Johnston Atoll
Marine ecologist Dr. Alan Friedlander, who has been based in Hawaiʻi for the past 35 years and now is Chief Scientist of ...
5,700 Years of Storms Reveal a Brewing Caribbean Crisis
A 30-meter sediment core extracted from the “Great Blue Hole” in Belize offers the longest continuous record of storm ...
Techno-Science.net7mon
Voici les premières îles à devenir inhabitables suite aux changements climatiques
L'Atoll, un écosystème unique menacé Un atoll est une formation insulaire corallienne, généralement de forme annulaire, entourant un lagon central. Cet écosystème unique se trouve principalement dans ...
Techno-Science.net4y
Île Bassas-da-India - Définition
Bassas-da-India est un atoll en formation d'Afrique situé dans le sud-ouest de l'océan Indien, dans le canal du Mozambique, à 380 kilomètres à l'ouest de Morombé à Madagascar, à 130 kilomètres au nord ...