Capitolo 23
and his/her deinosaurs, his/her winged pterodactyls and his/her whale-as lizards.
All these enormous creatures and these wide-leaved trees clearly point out
the existence of a temperature on the whole one of Northern Europe almost
warm as that of the Malayan archipelago in our his/her own day. The time
amount carried over almost uninterruptedly for all the more first stands of age in Set
Correctly.
Roughly speaking, indeed one can say that through the long series of
Primary and Secondary formations really a trace cannot be found of ice or
snow, autumn or winter you copper pruned or it pinched and it starved
deciduous vegetation. Everything is powerful, luxuriant, vivid. Life,
as it feared Comus, you/he/she was strangled with his/her fertility of waste. Once, indeed,
in the age of Permian, all on the moderate regions, north and south, us
you find momentary indications of that that it seems a lot as a glacial epoch,
partly comparable to that great glaciation on which the last binge us
you still bear to-day. But the Ice Grows old of the Permian, if there was,
it passed away completely, while once more leaving the warm and fertile world on
to the many poles under you condition as which we would now describe
essentially tropical.
It was with the Tertiary period--perhaps, indeed, only with the middle one
subdivision of that period--that the gradual cooling of the polar one and
intermediary regions started. We know from the deposits of the chalk
epoch in Greenland that late in Secondary it calculates ferns magnolias,,
myrtles and sago-palms--an Indian or Mexican flora--it bloomed
exaggeratedly in that of which is now the darkest and the most greater part of region ice-dressed
the northern hemisphere. Later still, of days of Eocene, although the
plants of Greenland were slightly grown more moderate in type, us he/she anchors
you find among the fossils, not only oaks, airplanes, grapevines and walnut-trees but
also wellingtonias as the great trees of the California, Spanish chestnuts,
southern and characteristic salisburias, wide-leaved the liquidambars, and American