Drilling on Enewetak reaches volcanic basement beneath the reef
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Boreholes sunk on Enewetak Atoll during United States site investigation work passed through more than a kilometre of reef-derived carbonate before striking volcanic rock. The stratigraphy is what Darwin's subsidence theory predicts and what the competing shallow-platform explanation does not, and it is generally taken as the confirmation of the 1842 argument, one hundred and ten years after it was published.
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- Darwin publishes The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefsevidence_for
- Enewetak Atollconcerns
- Charles Darwinconcerns
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