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Show Coral Reefs Far From Ocean. Mention of coral reefs naturally brings to one's mind a picture of palm-dotted palm-dotted Inlets girt with white sands In a tropical sea, but geologists Have found' coral reefs In the middle of the great continents. These, of course, belong be-long to tho past ages of the earth's history, and Paleozoic corals have been found ' Jn the Tlman-Urals and In tho Salurlan rocks of tho New Siberian Si-berian Islands, but tho most striking characteristics of these fossil corals ore similar to those of the corals or today. It Is assumed that you refer re-fer to a number of remr.rknble coral reefs that within recent years have been explored near Bnlnhrldge, on the Flint river. In Georgia. These reefs are ascribed to the Tertiary age, and In one enso a very large portion of the reef oxpc'cd cniisNteil of coral heads, some of vvliHi : more thnn c foot In diameter. Between 20 and .'JO species of coral have been recognized recog-nized In these reefs. |