Corals and Sea Levels of The Solomon Islands
By Wendy Heller, March 4, 2009 @ 02:00 AM (EST)
Source: Solomonstarnews.com
Sea level rise has been blamed for salt water intrusion into the subsurface "lens" of fresh water under some atolls in the Solomon Islands .Beneath the surface of most atolls, there is a lens shaped body of fresh water which floats on the seawater underneath.
The claim is that the rising sea levels are contaminating the fresh-water lens with seawater. These claims of blame ignore several facts. The first and most important fact, discovered by none other than Charles Darwin, is that coral atolls essentially "float" on the surface of the sea.
When the sea rises, the atoll rises with it, and when the sea falls, they fall as well...
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