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found in any of the shallow
valleys.
Grande Terre is an elevated
coral reef and shoal, and the
numerous fossils in some parts
of its rock indicate the abundance
of molluscan and other inverte-
brate life in the region during
late Tertiary time. The road-metal
quarry on the southern edge of
Pointe à Pitre at the end of
Rue Alexandre Isaac are highly
fossiliferous in many parts. As
far as I saw, the fossils were
all molds (