This illustration shows coal-beds with stumps of trees rising out of the coal. The stumps always stand vertically on the bed, however much the latter may be displaced, showing that the bed was horizontal when it was formed, or when the trees were growing.
James D. Dana, New Text-book of Geology (New York: Ivison, Blakeman & Company, 1883) 51
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