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- The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain…
- Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds…
- It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the…
- The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more…
- The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and…
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