The evidence from lithology and fossils indicates that Eniwetok, Bikini, and probably the other Marshall Islands, are cylinders of coral slowly building on a sinking volcanic neck or guyot; subsidence has occurred in Eocene and younger time, and there were three major periods of emergence during which the coral rocks were weathered subaerially.

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