Trees in Coal Mine


Immense tree trunks in the coal mines of Treuil at St. Etienne, France. Illustration from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition, reproduced from a drawing by M. Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart, the father of paleobotany.


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