The Subterranean World: Carboniferous Forest, Carboniferous Period.

By DR. GEORGE HARTWIG

Nature displays her wonders not only in the starry heavens or in the boundless variety of animal and vegetable life on the surface of our earth. In the dark regions underground she likewise shows us much that is remarkable or beautiful, or carries on gigantic operations, which are sometimes beneficent and sometimes disastrous to mankind.There lie concealed the mysterious laboratories of fire, which reveal to us their existence in earthquakes and volcanic explosions. There, in successive strata, repose the remains of extinct animals and plants. There many a wonderful cavern may be seen, with its fantastic stalactites, its rushing waters, and its noble halls. There have been deposited the rich stores of mineral wealth-the metals, the coals, the salt, the sulphur, &c.-without whose aid man would never have been more than a savage.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B087L4K9RM
• ISBN13: 9798635455517
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"