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"Lawn Coral"
seen at low water, A heavy
feded dark coral-crinoidal limestone
with a slight pinkish cast. Breaks in
the rim into pockets and often it is the
coral that is dissolved out.
Corals not very plentiful until near
the top where they occur in considerable
quantity. The corals have a silicified outer crust
and the collectors chip out the specimens and then etch
out greens "Lawn Permian" Collected by natural
in some Island and India shore quarries Port Royal.
Exposure shown above waters rise
a low side shelf having a thickness of
not once than 4 feet, but the entire thickness 6feet,
Large Phillippastraea with large
corallites - Stomatopora with little moulds
the common frost - Faprentis gigan-
tea - very large hemispheric Farbsto
common - Cladophorus of large joint
- Crepidophyllum - Eridophyllum
common - small celled Bryinpora