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Beds of corals, for instance would be explained relatively easily.
But 1600-foot-tall edifices of coral, in their growth positions, such as El Capitan in West Texas, are pretty tough to grow in just a few tens of thousands of years.
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You wouldn't happen to know where I can get a hold of some good textbooks which explain this in depth, as well as for their distributions across the globe would be nice as well.
No, I'm not a geologist, so I don't have any specific titles to suggest. There has been a lot written on "carbonate stratigraphy" in connection with the petroleum biz, though, and surely a catalog search at a college library would turn up something.
Thanks for you forthright answer.
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