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Excerpt from Latest Ordovician to Earliest Silurian Solitary Rugose Corals of the East-Central United States Although there has been a renewal of interest in these units and their biotas since the early 1970's, precise correlations and ages, as well as facies relationships and paleoenvironments, remain uncertain to varying degrees within outcrop areas and on a regional scale. The time interval represented by these deposits merits special attention. Climatic and sea-level changes dur ing the Late Ordovician to earliest Silurian glacial ep och (see Hambrey, 1985) have been related to major global changes in sedimentation and biotas Berry and Boucot, 1973; Brenchley and Newall, 1984; Brenchley, 1984; Sheehan, The changeover from Ordovician to Silurian coral faunas is poorly under stood because those of latest Ordovician to earliest Silurian age are inadequately known (hill, 1981, pp. 51. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.