Show FORMATION OF A COAL BED we lve can comprehend the formation of a bed of if coal in the olden time let us skip pose that a certain bed of cool coal has been completed by the growth of luxuriant ov ocr er it a low lying t act subject to iu lations by the sel sea bising gronal or of granite oi 01 lehi stoe rocks rock li in the distance di stance stanco defined tile the boundaries of a from which tho the i in ia z sh coal are derive J a but now 2 low ence of tile whole tract tle the we wa aiom the ali eit estuary uary and talt waters frolik lite ocean invaded the jungle carrying dark mud in floasin stams of trees ind and fronds of ferns mud inui ILI and d covers one vegetation of dl J I 1 centime the process of a goes on while the se sea a currents currerii curre riU and rivers I 1 pout oil into till tho goo gal band id and ma in itoch tile branches anil and from the uplands are inclined inea I 1 I 1 this thia process cont continues ones until the binkin sinking 0 of tho the ocean cean bed bcd altogether 1 chasm or is unter counter balanced by the ra ailt with winch which the sediment ii ia de deposited osite the lie tim bisin in becomes bec ouica g gradd grada all ally shallower and plants tl begin eg i IT to aej BPI I 1 pear commencing berb ris it at tha coast arid and creeping sc award until the abole is ia again oveis byra I 1 orest borel cent ferns and co coni niters tere with a ane lait th cliwe ell ge goor cration atlin anair ner generation na ilie die leavon branches it kid trunks arof oling around had gradually accumulating till the pulpy mass atin inq a of twenty I 1 tidy or oc a hundred feet eccli the process I 1 iho run belv d 1 of eniti mairin Mi irin i t matual I 1 a r ice at aln luni till lill kllc pulp I 1 13 s subjected to att tile pre orl of il ina y pandi ani 1 l or ol faitt fact of mal A matter milt cr Mein meanwhile while chei na as well INS ilich I 1 h anical changes c curnc an and J in 10 pr pro ew cesa feime what was once a torr rint is ia clanged changed into a led of coal py a repetition of 1 this promas process jofh 1 vir aliona I a 1 itlay I conceive conc eiTO the ibis 14 dilution ol of soy bumber or coal neahr amoun lin io in onie disi die d S fifty lor or six t 9 abr i a c e cd il wib ITT in a vertical thickness of thouman d feet feel ol of and sandstone ages roll on tho the el acrata rila are arc ren loVid from their foundation i up lical from the ses c bottem idill alio llio breaker ana ana currents sweep away way a portion of the lie co coloring Nering and tile mineral ard brought within the th re reach seb of m I 1 I 1 n ing industry i I 1 i |