 | Association of American Geologists and Naturalists - 1843 - 624 pages
...the thickness is often less than a foot, while their superficial area is many hundred square miles. I cannot conceive any state of the surface, but that...sea was occupied by vast marine savannahs of some peat-creating plant, growing half immersed on a perfectly horizontal plain, and this fringed and interspersed... | |
 | Samuel Joseph Mackie - Geology - 1861 - 670 pages
...the thickness is often less than a foot, while their superficial area is many hundred square miles. I cannot conceive any state of the surface but that in which the margin of the aea was occupied by v así marine savannahs of some peat-forming plant, growing half-immersed on a... | |
 | Samuel Joseph Mackie - Geology - 1861 - 664 pages
...the thickness is often less than a foot, while their superficial area is many hundred square miles. I cannot conceive any state of the surface but that in which the margjn of the tea was occupied by vast marine savannahs of some peat-forming plant, growing half-immersed... | |
 | Coal - 1875 - 320 pages
...square miles. I cannot conceive any state of the surface adopted to account for these appearances, but that in which the margin of the sea was occupied by vast marine savannahs of some peat-creating plant, growing half-immersed on a perfectly horizontal plane, and this fringed and interspersed... | |
 | Franklin Platt - Coal - 1875 - 338 pages
...square miles. I cannot conceive any state of the surface adopted to account for these appearances, but that in which the margin of the sea was occupied by vast marine savannahs of some peat-creating plant, growing half-immersed on a perfectly horizontal plane, and this fringed and interspersed... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1906 - 944 pages
...exhibit," and he could not conceive of "any state of the surface adapted to account for these appearances, but that in which the margin of the sea was occupied by vast marine savannahs of some peat-creating plant, growing half immersed on a perfectly horizontal plain, and this fringed and interspersed... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - Geologists - 1906 - 642 pages
...exhibit/' and he could not conceive of "any state of the surface adapted to account for these appearances, but that in which the margin of the sea was occupied by vast marine savannahs of some peat-creating plant, growing half immersed on a perfectly horizontal plain, and this fringed and interspersed... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1906 - 940 pages
...exhibit," and he could not conceive of ''any state of the surface adapted to account for these appearances, but that in which the margin of the sea was occupied by vast marine savannahs of some peat -creating plant, growing half immersed on a perfectly horizontal plain, and this fringed and interspersed... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1911 - 820 pages
...bed at great distance from their own locality ; only one method of accumulation can explain this. " I cannot conceive any state of the surface, but that...sea was occupied by vast marine savannahs of some peat-creating plant, growing half immersed on a perfectly horizontal plain, and this fringed and interspersed... | |
 | John James Stevenson - Coal - 1913 - 552 pages
...bed at great distance from their own locality ; only one method of accumulation can explain this. " I cannot conceive any state of the surface, but that...sea was occupied by vast marine savannahs of some peat-creating plant, growing half immersed on a perfectly horizontal plain, and this fringed and interspersed... | |
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I cannot conceive any state of the surface, but that in which the margin of the sea was occupied by vast marine savannahs of some peat-creating plant, growing half immersed on a perfectly horizontal plain, and this fringed and interspersed with forests... 
