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In the great Carboniferous formation, whence America derives so vast a proportion of her actual and potential wealth, in the beds of coal which have been formed from the vegetation of that period, we find abundant evidence of the existence of terrestrial animals.
Inasmuch as these animals can be proved to have been alive in the Carboniferous epoch, it is perfectly clear that, if the Miltonic account is to be accepted, the huge mass of rocks extending from the middle of the Palæozoic formations to the uppermost members of the series, must belong to the day which is termed by Milton the sixth.
Nothing could be further from the facts as we find them; we know of not the slightest evidence of the existence of birds before the Jurassic, or perhaps the Triassic, formation; while terrestrial animals, as we have just seen, occur in the Carboniferous rocks.
And again, if it be true that all varieties of fishes and the great whales, and the like, made their appearance on the fifth day, we ought to find the remains of these animals in the older rocks-in those which were deposited before the Carboniferous epoch.
I have already referred to the fact that the Carboniferous formations, in Europe and in America, contain the remains of scorpions in an admirable state of preservation, and that those scorpions are hardly distinguishable from such as now live.
No doubt, since the Carboniferous epoch, conditions have always obtained, such as existed when the scorpions of that epoch flourished; conditions in which scorpions find themselves better off, more competent to deal with the difficulties in their way, than any variation from the scorpion type which they may have produced; and, for that reason, the scorpion type has persisted, and has not been supplanted by any other form.
The Palœozoic rocks, so far as presented by the red-marl, rock-salt, and gypsum, are quite the same, and so are the Carboniferous and Triassic groups, but others of the sub-Carboniferous beds present themselves with a different association from those of cis-Indus.
44 Sir Charles Lyell, after a careful inquiry into the phenomena 46exhibited by these strata of gypsum, gives his opinion that the production of these gypsiferous beds in the carboniferous sea was closely connected with volcanic agency, whether in the form of heated vapours or stufas, or of hot mineral springs, or some other effects resulting from submarine igneous irruptions.
Unfortunately we have to depend upon the sunshine, either that of the present or of the carboniferous era; we have no key to the treasure-house of the atom.
The Carboniferous period-Relations of Carboniferous rocks to Devonian-The Carboniferous Limestone or Sub-Carboniferous series-The Millstone-grit and the Coal-measures-Life of the period-Structure and mode of formation of Coal-Plants of the Coal.
Animal life of the Carboniferous period - Protozoa - Corals - Crinoids - Pentremites - Structure of Pentremites - Echinoids - Structure of Echinoidea - Annelides - Crustacea - Insects - Arachnids - Myriapods - Polyzoa - Brachiopods - Bivalves and Univalves - Cephalopods - Fishes - Labyrinthodont Amphibians-Literature.
Section of Carboniferous strata, Kinghorn, Fife.
Generalised section of the Carboniferous rocks of the North of England.
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