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<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060820193044/http://www.ilmpt.org/chazy.html">(Lamotte Preservation Trust) The Chazy Reef on Isle La Motte</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160306233902/http://www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/geo/chazytxt.htm">(Vermont Geological Survey) Dr. Charlotte Mehrtens, "Chazy Reef at Isle LaMotte"</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.lcbp.org/wayside/PDFS/Chazy_Reef/Chazy_Reef.pdf">Chazy Reef Formation</a> (pdf file)</li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Raymond, P.E. 1924. "The oldest coral reef" <i>Report of the Vermont State Geologist</i>, no. 14, pp 72–77.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>P.E. Raymond of Harvard called it "the oldest coral reef in the world" (Raymond 1924), though coral rubble was not in fact the primary reef building material. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Percy E. Raymond, "The Trilobites of the Chazy Limestone", Annals of the Carenegie Museum 3.2 (1905): "...the forty years which have elapsed since the distinguished Canadian paleontologist, Elkanah Billings, published his descriptions of Chazy fossils". <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>H. J. Hofmann, "Ordovician Chazy Group in southern Quebec" AAPG Bulletin 47.2 (February 1963:270-301) retrieved November 30, 2008 <a href="http://aapgbull.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/2/270" target="_blank">http://aapgbull.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/2/270</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>The quarrymen's term was noted by Raymond 1905. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>The blackest stone may be seen in the polished "marble" revetments—actually unmetamorphosed limestone— inside Radio City Music Hall, New York, and in floors in the Vermont State House. <a href="/wiki/Limestone" target="_blank">/wiki/Limestone</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Chazy Fossil Reef". National Natural Landmarks Program. National Park Service. June 28, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2016. <a href="http://www.nature.nps.gov/nnl/site.cfm?Site=CHFO-VT" target="_blank">http://www.nature.nps.gov/nnl/site.cfm?Site=CHFO-VT</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>