Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1886 — Arctic Coal. [ARTICLE]

Arctic Coal.

Commenting on Lieutenant Greely’s list every of coal within the arctic circle in Greenland, Mr. W. Mattieu Williams expresses himself as dissatisfied with the prevailing notion which temands a a ib-tropical climate for the formation of carboniferous deposits. He has himself described the deposition of coal that is in ’ act 'al progress at,the present time in Norway, within lour degrees of the arctic circle, and believes that similar deposits yay be found farther north. No very violent alteration of climate, therefore, need be assumed to explain the Greenland ecal. r z ’ • . ' V-"- ' - ” '■