The Age of the Coal Swamps
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of superabundant ice and snow, of "Glacial Ages," that is, even in the Azoic period.
It was only towards the close of the Age of Fishes, in a period of extensive shallow seas and lagoons, that life spread itself out in any effectual way from the waters on to the land. No doubt the earlier
A CARBONIFEROUS SWAMP
A Coal Seam in the Making
types of the forms that now begin to appear in great abundance had already been developing in a rare and obscure manner for many scores of millions of years. But now came their opportunity.
Plants no doubt preceded animal forms in this invasion of the land, but the animals probably followed up the plant emigration very closely. The first problem that the plant had to solve was the
