Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1884 — Ups and Downs of the Earth. [ARTICLE]

Ups and Downs of the Earth.

Geologists are now claiming that the Rocky Mountains have been raised to their present height by the action of heat under them, while in parts where the earth is cooling most rapidly it is sinking. Off the coast of Florida the coast survey operations have brought up from the bottom of the deep sea the remains of animals that lived ages upon ages ago in the bottoms of rivers or upon land. The evidence that they were not washed out to sea is abundant. In the English Channel, hundreds of feet deep, were iound rich stores of mammoth ivory. The animals had died where the remains were found long before there was any water there.