Show I IS AGES OLDER THAN COAL OA Coal is considered and rightly to beof be beof besuch of such ancient origin as compared with man that the human mind cannot conceive conceive conceive con con- the immensity of the ages that elapsed between its deposition and its is use as a source of heat and power says Union Oil 01 News During each great geological period perio of or time before the Jungle growth had supPlied supplied sup- sup Plied material for the coal beds petroleum petroleum petroleum petro petro- leum pled already had accumulated in the lower rocks In the tha the form forns of gas gs a and d liquid oil was waiting to be transformed oi into light heat and power for the use of human beings not yet existent The first heat and power were obtained the from combustion of or wood growing gowing on the surface of the earth The next source sourCE was coal which had Is its origin in an older older old old- ller ll er period when the time climate and anti carbonic acid gas supplied material for a vrank rank woody gs growth which covered coverEd by sedimentary seth sedi deposits was changed into solid sold matter maUer It is not known how many years oder than I coal Is petroleum Millions of or years year must have passed between the periods j when organic matter mater under intense temperature temperature tem tern I change and pressure was converted converted con con- converted into natural gas and oil 01 and tho period when the great gs ferns appeared which were later to form the coal beds Other eons came and went ere human beings appeared upon the earth earh Comparatively Com Corn brief by comparison is the time which elapsed between their adI advent advent ad ad- ad- ad I vent and their development to the point of utilizing of-utilizing the subsurface stores of oC heat I and power The people of oC the twentieth century I are using the accumulation of the earths earth's wealth of heat light and power stored I through the incalculable ages Few give a thought to natures nature's sow slow but sure sue methods of furnishing this bounty I After wood coal and petroleum fail fai to supply human needs What needs what Then will come the oldest of oC all al that w which ich came cae into being with the universe itel-cec- itel eleC elec |