Show find now new evidences of coal formation formati cn evidence that coal was formed at the bottoms of indent huhes and not in vast swamps or bogs as aa com Eup supposed posed la Is advanced by prof ea P 0 jeffrey kofl of harvard university in an article tn in science professor jeffreys studies were conducted on coats coals from geological of tertiary ige which ta a much more recent than the source of roost most of cf the coal in this country but which supplies remains of plants more like thord growing oddny and hence more to the botanist as for far as their habits are cou concerned verned barller studies of similar sit tillar coata coals had disclosed wood structures c U es ses whick were taken to be of capri and since cy presses are ara swamp trees atila was taken anken RT ar evidence for the theory of will coal formation professor jeffreys investigation however have shown chown that these supposed cypress 0 press like ilke woods wi deiy really from redwoods fled and di rillar trees that normally grow ork on well ruined drained upland soils bolls end and never in swamps ills L i on cla elusion sion therefore Is that these coal beds beda are tho the rein remains of preat great masses of waterlogged water logged vegetation washed down from the hills by rivers and deposited in the bottoms of huge lakes |