ait, bar, continental island, coral island, holm, island, islandology, islet, oceanic island, sandbank
Definitionn. an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon
Last update: July 10, 2015
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The flat summit is formed by a succession of limestones - all deposited in shallow water - from the Eocene (or Oligocene) up to recent deposits in the above-mentioned atoll with islands on its reef. [Please select]
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Give Darwin's theory regarding the way a coral atoll may have been formed. [Please select]
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Still another variety of reef is known as the "atoll" or "lagoon" reef. [Please select]
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Their savage hearts were ever in their own atoll, the home to which the native clings so passionately, and their eyes were dark with hopeless longing. [Please select]
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