Show WHEN CAMELS RAN WILD T th io geology of mount mountain in regions is generally more diffie difficult cult to master than that of plains plain a because the rocks have b been een more broken and tilted about but the beology y of ter certain p parts iyog of mississippi is almost as difficult as that thai of a 1 rno mountainous itjin ragin because certain widely distributed formations bear few definite id identification ril marks fattic particularly lilar ly remains and impressions of cf plants ond animals that lived at the time the deposits were formed A pecullar peculiar sandstone which ceolo geologists ests have called the catahoula s sandstone n nd stone lias has been studied with care by G C matson and E W perry berry of the united states geall geological ical survey department of 01 the interior who have boscn able to identify and follow fellow the sanda sandstone tone by means of the remains of plants among the plants found were pines ferns leaves of date palms tropical my myrtles riles figs and a tree closely related to the present day mexican and central american sapota f from roin which most of the material for chewing eving ch gum is obtained these fossil foss 1 plants show that at the time the sandstone was formed perhaps five million years ango ago the L climate of this region was tropical and bones of camels found by other geologists and the similarity of the sand composing the sandstone to certain tropical desert sands have a similar implication |