Talk:coral island

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You know. Just another island made of coral. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 02:25, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Are they made out of coral alone, or is coral just the typical part of the formation process? —CodeCat 15:57, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

If we want to split hairs, there's probably nothing that is made 100% of something. --Hekaheka (talk) 16:27, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Delete.​—msh210℠ (talk) 07:13, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

I'm not so sure this is simple SoP. A coral island has its own morphology (typically a ring of coral reef surrounding a shallow lagoon) and its own evolution. The same cannot be said of, say, rock islands, sand islands, mud islands etc. Obviously, these can have morphology and evolution, but no particular morphology and evolution is implied. If one were to dump a shipload of concrete in the ocean a concrete island might result. If one dumps a shipload of crushed coral, on the other hand, the result is not a coral island as normally understood since it would not contain any living coral. It would not evolve into a coral island unless it happened to be at a site conducive to the colonisation of live coral - in which case the concrete island might also so evolve. SpinningSpark 03:10, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

OED has,

coral-island n. an island of which the formation is due to the growth of coral.

It cannot be deduced from the parts that the coral is required to be living. SpinningSpark 03:24, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Keep per Spinningspark. Cloudcuckoolander (formerly Astral) (talk) 06:54, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Kept. bd2412 T 18:15, 14 August 2013 (UTC)