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Fossil Coral
Close-up view of fossil coral from the Mares Quarry, near Saint-Germain-de-Joux, France (a few km west of the Swiss border). The block is about 1½ m long. Note the parallel arrangement of the numerous coral branches.
Punta Grohmann section
The iconic Punta Grohmann section, in the Dolomites of Italy, showcases Triassic (Ladinian to Carnian) basinal deposits visible in the grassy slopes at the center of the photo, overlain by the towering dolomitized limestone of the Cassian Dolomite Formation. The basinal deposits accumulated in troughs between carbonate platforms and preserve evidence of catastrophic processes, including volcanism, turbidity currents, and toe-of-slope deposits containing large limestone blocks that collapsed from…