Show X ne n find new evidences of coal formation Formati cn evidence that coal was formed at the bottoms bottom of ai at clent takes lakes and not in vast swamps or bogs boga as an com coa supposed Is advanced by prof lp 3 0 jeffrey of fl harvard arvard university in an article in science Prote professor jeffreys studies were conducted on coals from geological formations fornia tlona of tertiary age which Is much more recent than the source of roost most of the coal in till ahta country but which supplies remains of bf plants more like those growing today and hence more to the botanist as far as their habits are arc concerned earlier studies of bifilar coals h had ad disclosed wood structures which were taken to be of cypre cy presses aises and place cy presses iare are swamp trees this was taken ar 99 evidence for the clap acal theory of coal form formation atton professor jeffreys investigations however nave shows that these supposed sui posed cypress like woods were really from redwoods and trees that normally grow on well drained upland arid and never in ID swamps awn amps ills ells conclusion cl therefore Is that these coal beds are tile the remains of preat grent masses of waterlogged water logged loheed vegetation washed a down from the lie hills by rivers and deposited tn in the bottoms of huge lathes ittzes |