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- 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…
- But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata…
- Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they…
- 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 appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them…
- Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.
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