"Marine animal" Quotes from Famous Books
... periods—to allow the accumulation of these materials—and its subsequent elevation. This explanation is rejected, for the simple reason that the deposits show no signs whatever of a marine origin. No sea-shells, or remains of any marine animal, have as yet been found throughout their whole extent—over a region several thousands of miles in length, and from five to seven hundred miles in width. It is evident, he considers, that this basin was a fresh-water basin, these deposits ... — The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston |