Geol. [f. CORAL + RAG in its local sense of hard coarse-textured rock.] The upper member of the Middle Oolite series, a kind of limestone, containing continuous beds of petrified corals.

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1816.  W. Smith, Strata Ident., 19. The Coral Rag consists chiefly of lumps of coralline Limestone.

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1878.  Huxley, Physiogr., xvii. 294. The coral-rag itself is altogether similar to modern coral-limestone.

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