History of Riverside County, California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its ... Early Days to the Present (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Excerpt from History of Riverside County, California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth and Development From the Early Days to the Present

That animal life existed here long before the mountain's up heaval the discoveries of the scientists is convincing proof, for the fossil remains so plentifully found indicate that even further back in the far distant past, When, perhaps, our mountains hardly showed above the level of the sea, the climate must have been humid and tropical in character, and many monstrous creatures, no longer liv ing upon the earth, ranged amid a very jungle of vegetable growth, which, deeply buried for millions of years may have created the im mense deposits of oil now being utilized by man as a source of wealth. Even Within the limits of the city of Riverside the bones of some of these prehistoric animals have been discovered.

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