The Technical World Magazine, Volume 21Technical World Company, 1914 |
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Page 55
... Eocene period - the oldest geologic age in which mammals are supposed to have existed - when amidst the birth of great chains of mountains all over the earth , a bridge of land was formed be- tween Africa and Europe . In the strata of ...
... Eocene period - the oldest geologic age in which mammals are supposed to have existed - when amidst the birth of great chains of mountains all over the earth , a bridge of land was formed be- tween Africa and Europe . In the strata of ...
Page 56
... Eocene earth surface . But if some natural canyon like our Grand Canyon of the Colorado could be found , some strata of the unknown Eocene period of Af- rica might be uncovered and possibly the mystery of the elephant solved . Crossing ...
... Eocene earth surface . But if some natural canyon like our Grand Canyon of the Colorado could be found , some strata of the unknown Eocene period of Af- rica might be uncovered and possibly the mystery of the elephant solved . Crossing ...
Page 57
... carried nothing else , in long tin - lined wooden boxes slung in pairs over the camels ' backs . On the return trip , these boxes held fossils ; skeletons of the unknown Eocene animals of Africa - specimens that cost ten thousand. 57.
... carried nothing else , in long tin - lined wooden boxes slung in pairs over the camels ' backs . On the return trip , these boxes held fossils ; skeletons of the unknown Eocene animals of Africa - specimens that cost ten thousand. 57.
Page 58
... Eocene animals of Africa - specimens that cost ten thousand miles of travel and the facing of hardships and perils in the Great Desert that every one might look on these strange creatures and understand something of the great law of ...
... Eocene animals of Africa - specimens that cost ten thousand miles of travel and the facing of hardships and perils in the Great Desert that every one might look on these strange creatures and understand something of the great law of ...
Page 59
... Eocene deposits in the Fayƻm . Here it was almost certain that the ancestor of the Palaeo- mastodon would be found , and during the second week of work on these beds , one of the Arabs came run- ning with excite- ment to a n- nounce the ...
... Eocene deposits in the Fayƻm . Here it was almost certain that the ancestor of the Palaeo- mastodon would be found , and during the second week of work on these beds , one of the Arabs came run- ning with excite- ment to a n- nounce the ...
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