greybeard
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and often, be able to drink salt water.
Most atolls are volcanic caused but not made of lava. They are coral that rings an underwater or near surface volcano, either extinct, dormant or active.
The volcanic part (the interior) usually subsides over years or centuries and just the coral ring atoll is left.
I've been to Johnston Atoll in the central Pacific. Close to it anyway. It was contaminated with some kind of nuclear weapons radiation.
Most atolls are volcanic caused but not made of lava. They are coral that rings an underwater or near surface volcano, either extinct, dormant or active.
The volcanic part (the interior) usually subsides over years or centuries and just the coral ring atoll is left.
I've been to Johnston Atoll in the central Pacific. Close to it anyway. It was contaminated with some kind of nuclear weapons radiation.