Report of a Geological Reconnoissance Made in 1835 Microform From the Seat O
Report of a Geological Reconnoissance Made in 1835 Microform From the Seat O
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Assuming the vegetable origin of coal, it appears most probable that coal veins must have been furnished by plants which grew on the spot, as peats do at present. In cases where plants have accumulated by being swept from a distance into particular situations, as at Bovey Heathfield, in Devonshire, where whole forests seem to have swept off from the Dartmoor granite, and collected in a basin lower down, we must expect to find them, as they are there, mixed up with gravel and detritus ; but that... does not occur in the coal veins, they are composed of pure combustible matter, although, as has been seen, they are sometimes divided by argillaceous layers. If we were to endeavor to account for the coal measures upon the hypothesis of plants transported from more elevated and distant districts, in vain we look for vestiges of such districts, lost in admiration at the changes which the surface has undergone. The degree of bitumina- tion belonging to the many varieties of coal, and upon which Feather stonhaugh's Geological Report.
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Assuming the vegetable origin of coal, it appears most probable that coal veins must have been furnished by plants which grew on the spot, as peats do at present. In cases where plants have accumulated by being swept from a distance into particular situations, as at Bovey Heathfield, in Devonshire, where whole forests seem to have swept off from the Dartmoor granite, and collected in a basin lower down, we must expect to find them, as they are there, mixed up with gravel and detritus ; but that... does not occur in the coal veins, they are composed of pure combustible matter, although, as has been seen, they are sometimes divided by argillaceous layers. If we were to endeavor to account for the coal measures upon the hypothesis of plants transported from more elevated and distant districts, in vain we look for vestiges of such districts, lost in admiration at the changes which the surface has undergone. The degree of bitumina- tion belonging to the many varieties of coal, and upon which Feather stonhaugh's Geological Report.
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