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great barrier reefs on the platforms of the larger stable 
blocks. 
This brief statement indicates how accurate an index to 
the Tertiary and Pleistocene movements, within the Pacific 
region, the coral formations themselves have been. It. 
would be extremely advisable, on that account, to make a. 
careful examination of various typical groups of the coral 
area, such as Fiji, Tonga, the Greater Solomons, New 
Giinea, and New Caledonia, as a prelude to a detailed 
study of the structural forms of the Pacific in Kainozoic 
time. 
ws. 
