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The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

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SPITZBEEGEN. 171Jurassic, <strong>and</strong> even some tertiary, are represented. Miocene depos<strong>its</strong> near BellSound contain an extensive fossil flora, poplars, alder, hazel, cypress, <strong>and</strong> plane treesshowing that in this period the climate must have resembled that of Sc<strong>and</strong>inaviaFig. 83.Spitzbergen Archipelago.Scale 1 : 3,400,000.25° I ofP(«\ *S IV^-, ,--• . NcrthC.U yJl> r.Jl. ^ «?(. Scare.r-W cm*EofO^"^SouttJCsp,about the sixtieth parallel. Some of the chalks contain fine marbles. An attempthas been made to work the rich phosphate beds of the Ijs-fiord ;lumps of coal arebrought down by the glaciers; <strong>and</strong> Blomstr<strong>and</strong> has discovered carboniferous

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