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The rocks that make Torbay were created nearly 400 million years ago.....The Coral Coast tells their dramatic story.
Discover the extraordinary secrets of our past!
Follow the Trails – Go on Events – Visit the Gateway Sites
 Travel back in time 380 million years and picture the scene….
Torbay 's sandy beaches burned under a blazing hot desert sun. Massive coral reefs stretched for miles in a warm tropical sea. Volcanoes dotted the horizon. Sudden flash floods carved deep gorges through the desert landscape.
 Travel back in time 350 thousand years and picture the scene…
Early humans made their homes in caves. Hyenas, bears and sabre-tooth cats roamed the land Sea levels were much lower, so that Berry Head stood 300 feet (100 metres) above a flat wooded plain. Victorian scientists, trying to understand how the earth was formed and when different rocks were laid down, found answers to some of their questions in fossils from the limestones of Torquay and surrounding area. As a result, a whole area of geological time (345-395 million years ago) is now known by scientists across the world as the "Devonian".
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