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Rachel Carson. The Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us
Table of Contents
The Gray Beginnings
The Pattern of the Surface
The Changing Year
The Sunless Sea
Hidden Lands
The Long Snowfall
The Birth of an Island
If we don’t find Ascension. Our wives will get a pension
The Shape of Ancient Seas
Wind and Water
Wind, Sun, and the Spinning of the Earth
The Moving Tides
The Global Thermostat
Wealth from the Salt Seas
The Encircling Sea
APPENDIX
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING[N]
INDEX
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Rachel Carson
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The mountains that had been thrown up by the Laurentian revolution gradually wore away, and as the sediments were washed from their summits and deposited on the lowlands, great areas of the continents sank under the load. The seas crept out of their basins and spread over the lands. Life fared well and was exceedingly abundant in those shallow, sunlit seas. But with the later retreat of the ocean water into the deeper basins, many creatures must have been left stranded in shallow, landlocked bays. Some of these animals found means to survive on land. The lakes, the shores of the rivers, and the coastal swamps of those days were the testing grounds in which plants and animals either became adapted to the new conditions or perished.
As the lands rose and the seas receded, a strange fishlike creature emerged on the land, and over the thousands of years its fins became legs, and instead of gills it developed lungs. In the Devonian sandstone this first amphibian left its footprint.
