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conglomerates

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The paragraphs in the index’s own groups, a chapter to each, in the order the index prints them, and in the order of the book within each. A paragraph read in an earlier chapter is named in one line.

coal layers alternate with 1 paragraph

59:5.15The coal lay­ers al­ter­nate with shale, stone, and con­glom­er­ate. These coal beds over cen­tral and east­ern United States vary in thick­ness from forty to fifty feet. But many of these de­posits were washed away dur­ing sub­se­quent land el­e­va­tions. In some parts of North Amer­ica and Eu­rope the coal-bear­ing strata are 18,000 feet in thick­ness.

sedimentation from ancient shores 3 paragraphs

58:7.9Dur­ing these times of prim­i­tive ma­rine life, ex­ten­sive ar­eas of the con­ti­nen­tal shores sank be­neath the seas from a few feet to half a mile. Much of the older sand­stone and con­glom­er­ates rep­re­sents the sed­i­men­tary ac­cu­mu­la­tions of these an­cient shores. The sed­i­men­tary rocks be­long­ing to this early strat­i­fi­ca­tion rest di­rectly upon those lay­ers which date back far be­yond the ori­gin of life, back to the early ap­pear­ance of the world-wide ocean.

59:1.101. Con­glom­er­ates—mat­ter de­posited near the shore lines.

60:1.1The ero­sion de­posits of this pe­riod were mostly con­glom­er­ates, shale, and sand­stone. The gyp­sum and red lay­ers through­out these sed­i­men­ta­tions over both Amer­ica and Eu­rope in­di­cate that the cli­mate of these con­ti­nents was arid. These arid dis­tricts were sub­jected to great ero­sion from the vi­o­lent and pe­ri­odic cloud­bursts on the sur­round­ing high­lands.

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Cited alongside: sandstone, shale