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Identifier: popularsciencemo89newyuoft (find matches)
Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1872 (1870s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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eabout one inmdred years old which hasprolonged its own life by grafting abranch into a nuich younger tree. Popular Science Monthly 513 A Slab of Sandstone Seventy-FiveMillion Years Old A SLAB of sandstone stands on edge inthe bed of an Ohio stream. It haspeculiar markings made in times past byripples when the stone was soft sand. Tlielayer of rock from which this skib was brokenextends far back into the bank of the stream,and comes to light again in a quarry a miledistant. In fact when the ripple marks wereformed it was the soft sand of an ocean shore.In short the pictured slab is a piece ofwhat geologists call Berea sandstone, formedfrom ancient sediments at least se\cnty-fivemillion years ago. To-day the Berea sand-stone beds are of importance because greatquantities of oil and gas are found in them. A Curious Egg ShapedLike a Dumb-Bell THE . freak eggshown in the pic-ture on the right waslaid by an ordinaryLeghorn hen. Whenfirst laid it was a per-fect dumb-bell inshape, having two
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The inner bone formation of a whalesear picked up by a Scandinavian fisherman yolks, one on each end, connected by asac enclosing the albuminous portion. A slab of sand-rippled Bereasandstone ofpractically in-calculable age The freak eggcompared in sizewith a normalegg laid by thevery same hen Would You Recognize the Ear-Boneof a Whale If You Saw One? HERE is an actual photograph of anatural object. Does it remind youof a human face, exaggerated as in acartoonists drawing? But it is only one of those freakyresemblances so often seen in naturalobjects or formations. The photograph represents one of theear-bones of a whale, an object aboutthree times the size of a hens egg. Awhale has a most complicated earmechanism, composed of several bonesand ossicles of different sizes, inter-locked by curious angles and facets.Sometimes one of these bones is cast upon the beach. The photograph repre-sents such an ear-bone picked up by afisherman on some sandy beach on theScandinavian peninsula; and

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