Abstract
MANY Alpine geologists believe the limestone and dolomite mountains which form so peculiarly beautiful and interesting a part of our Eastern Alps to be in great part composed of Triassic coral reefs. If this be so, their geological structure must necessarily contribute much towards elucidating the discussion concerning the origin of atolls and other forms of recent coral reefs. In this discussion, which has chiefly been carried on in England, the structure of our Triassic limestone mountains has been left out of account in a manner very surprising to me, considering that authorities like Richthofen and Mojsisovics have declared them to be remnants of coral reefs.
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