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place. These undoubtedly have relation
to the movements of the Cincinnati axis.
Large Corals.
In the Block Coal or Middle
bed one often sees heads of corals sticking
above the general surface of the river
shelf. Formerly the Upper Coral zone was
quarried for lime the cause of the wide
present exposure of the Block Coal zone.
Of Favosites many can be seen 4 to
5 feet in diameter and one was measured
having a diameter of 8 feet. A colony
of many hemispheric masses one from
into the other had a spread of 14 by
8 feet. Of Cyathophyllum sylvestre
one was seen 8 feet in diameter.
Of the smaller Renacea Cladopora
Leon showed me the remnant of a
colony once having a diameter