Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 22 | In other View more quotes about areas">areas, certain of these solid deposits are exposed and are worked rather in the manner of open mining or quarries. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 19 | With the subsidence of the sea and the shifting of strata, certain cubic pasangs of salt, in certain areas, became pressed into granitelike formations, through which one may actually tunnel. |
| 15 | 20 | Some of these deposits are far below the surface of the Tahari. |
| 15 | 21 | Men live in some of them, for weeks at a time. |
| 15 | 22 | In other areas, certain of these solid deposits are exposed and are worked rather in the manner of open mining or quarries. |
| 15 | 23 | In places these salt mountains are more than six hundred feet high. |
| 15 | 24 | At Klima, however, most of the salt is in solution. |
| 15 | 25 | It is the subterranean residue of portions of the vanished seas themselves, which have slipped through fissures and, protected from the heat, and fed still by the ancient seeping rivers, now moving sluggishly beneath the surface, maintain themselves, the hidden remnants of oceans, once mighty, which long ago swelled upon the surface of Gor itself. |
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With the subsidence of the sea and the shifting of strata, certain cubic pasangs of salt, in certain areas, became pressed into granitelike formations, through which one may actually tunnel.
Some of these deposits are far below the surface of the Tahari.
Men live in some of them, for weeks at a time.
In other areas, certain of these solid deposits are exposed and are worked rather in the manner of open mining or quarries.
In places these salt mountains are more than six hundred feet high.
At Klima, however, most of the salt is in solution.
It is the subterranean residue of portions of the vanished seas themselves, which have slipped through fissures and, protected from the heat, and fed still by the ancient seeping rivers, now moving sluggishly beneath the surface, maintain themselves, the hidden remnants of oceans, once mighty, which long ago swelled upon the surface of Gor itself.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)