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Title: Central Europe
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Partsch, Josef Franz Maria, 1851-1925 Mackinder, Halford John, Sir, 1861-1947, ed Black, Clementina, tr
Subjects: Physical geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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the first period of the Tertiary epoch (theEocene) was over, and when the folding of the rocks,The working through long ages, had already Hungarian built up the great, firmly-connected Car-Danube and pathian curve, the outer mountains wereLowland. still surrounded, and the area of depres- sion within the mountain enclosure was still filled by asea—the Miocene sea. It left behind the clays and sandsof that soft undulating hill country, divided up by streams,which forms the inner and outer borders of the Car-pathians, and in the bosom of which lie hidden greatdeposits of salt. The formation of these salt beds is nodoubt connected with the slow disappearance of thatMiocene sea which lost by degrees its free communicationwith the ocean and the connection between its severalparts. The sea was replaced by brackish lakes, theextent and saltness of which continued to grow less,until the bed of the old waters was laid dry and becamean arena for the action of winds and rivers. MMBT:S1A- SUITS
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