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English: Note that this "paleomap" was published long before the theory of continental drift was published. Other theories on how geology worked, were prevalent then.

Identifier: opencour_216181caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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ed head, with threegreat horns or knobs ranging upward in a single row from near theiwint of his massive nose to the crown of his brainless head. But 656 THE OPEN COURT. triceratops died and joined his fellow dinosaurs. A diagnosis of thecause of his death would have been over-specialization, changingclimate and vegetation, and to make room for a superior race. Contemporaneous with Archseopteryx, the primitive bird withreptile-like caudal appendage, was Ctenacodon, the earliest knownmammal, found in the upper Jurassic stone of Wyoming; that dimin-utive creature was but little if any larger than a mouse, and anhumble successor to the mighty horde of reptiles then in the fadingtwilight of their ponderous, physical ascendency, and nearing theirlast, long degradation to the dust from which they sprang, or theconsignment of their massive bones to the rocky matrix of naturesgrand sarcophagus to become fossil history, read and pondered overby a far superior race of beings in a distant epoch.
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Fig. \III. THE MESOZOIC CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA. Those parts of the North American continent which were thenabove the Cretaceous or Tertiary Sea at the close of the Mesozoicor dawn of the Cenozoic (modern) era. The North American continent at the close of the Mesozoicera showed further growth above the Cretaceous sea along the soutfi-western border of the principal land mass (Fig. VIII), and thefoot-hills and plains expanded out from the Cordilleras, and en-croached upon the shallows of the oceans bed. The great inland seawas gradually becoming a shallow strait, but still extended fromthe Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico over the present state ofTexas, and embraced much of what is now Oklahoma. Kansas. Neb- THE EVOLUTION OF CLIMATE. t>57 raska, the Dakotas, Colorado, Wyoming, Saskatchewan, Alberta,and Mackenzie. The rainfall no doubt was becoming less torrential,excepting possibly over the steep, western incline of the Cordilleras.Conduction, convection, and radiation had redu

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