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Scotland

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Every paragraph the index cites under Scotland, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

59:3.3290,000,000 years ago the sea had largely with­drawn from the con­ti­nents, and the bot­toms of the sur­round­ing oceans were sink­ing. The land masses were lit­tle changed un­til they were again sub­merged. The early moun­tain move­ments of all the con­ti­nents were be­gin­ning, and the great­est of these crustal up­heavals were the Hi­malayas of Asia and the great Cale­do­nian Moun­tains, ex­tend­ing from Ire­land through Scot­land and on to Spitzber­gen.

59:3.4–5 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

59:3.4It is in the de­posits of this age that much of the gas, oil, zinc, and lead are found, the gas and oil be­ing de­rived from the enor­mous col­lec­tions of veg­etable and an­i­mal mat­ter car­ried down at the time of the pre­vi­ous land sub­mer­gence, while the min­eral de­posits rep­re­sent the sed­i­men­ta­tion of slug­gish bod­ies of wa­ter. Many of the rock salt de­posits be­long to this pe­riod.

59:3.5The trilo­bites rapidly de­clined, and the cen­ter of the stage was oc­cu­pied by the larger mol­lusks, or ceph­a­lop­ods. These an­i­mals grew to be fif­teen feet long and one foot in di­am­e­ter and be­came mas­ters of the seas. This species of an­i­mal ap­peared sud­denly and as­sumed dom­i­nance of sea life.

59:3.6The great vol­canic ac­tiv­ity of this age was in the Eu­ro­pean sec­tor. Not in mil­lions upon mil­lions of years had such vi­o­lent and ex­ten­sive vol­canic erup­tions oc­curred as now took place around the Med­i­ter­ra­nean trough and es­pe­cially in the neigh­bor­hood of the British Isles. This lava flow over the British Isles re­gion to­day ap­pears as al­ter­nate lay­ers of lava and rock 25,000 feet thick. These rocks were laid down by the in­ter­mit­tent lava flows which spread out over a shal­low sea bed, thus in­ter­spers­ing the rock de­posits, and all of this was sub­se­quently el­e­vated high above the sea. Vi­o­lent earth­quakes took place in north­ern Eu­rope, no­tably in Scot­land.

134:6.3There shall be wars and ru­mors of wars—na­tion will rise against na­tion—just as long as the world’s po­lit­i­cal sov­er­eignty is di­vided up and un­justly held by a group of na­tion-states. Eng­land, Scot­land, and Wales were al­ways fight­ing each other un­til they gave up their re­spec­tive sovereign­ties, repos­ing them in the United King­dom.

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See also British Isles

Cited alongside: British Isles