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The third morning, John was by Fitch on
Climatic zones. He reviewed the marine and land
faunas of the Mesozoic and Tertiary.
The Jurassic and Cretaceous of Mexico was
closely related to Europe that the countries geologi-
cally were united in a Congress then.
Always climatic zones of the Juan he said
could not be maintained by his reasons could not
out.
He said the faunas showed that there was a
cooling of the climate with justable glacial local con-
ditions towards the close of the Upper Cretaceous. He
said it was plainer than in the faunas,
The differences indicated a warm area.
A warming again took place in the Upper Eocene
and Oligocene.
The changes of I.G. spread from N.A. via the
Antilles to S.A. To Asia by way of Dehring St.
The basis for the cooling of the Late Cret. and of
Tert. is largely based on land animals.
The main cause for the cooling of climate he
concluded was due to the loss of Carbon dioxide
and water vapors. This loss took place through the
calamities of rocks and by the storing of carbon