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Coral.
The coral in the Connemara appear always to follow the structure of clay but in the Liffey (illegible) this is not so.
The coral in weathered sections is very decidedly weathered, the layers appearing to be rather orange and not thick. The marine debris come in shreds in the coral but below the sequence is gradual from the underclay to the coral. The coral appears in little lenses an 1/8 of inch thick and about two inches long in the clay. The appearance of the coral is that it was originally as a jelly for we see no leaves or plant remains recognizable as such to the naked eye. Of course we know that undissolved pieces of plants are often found in coral, but in general these must have been submerged through greater gravity or pressure into the jelly.
The sandstones are here over coral but one can recognize the sand grains in certain layers. Often the material is very fine and creethers down into thin layers 1/4 inch thr