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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 Ranges. There Are Still Plenty Of Shell Layers. We Notice Them, Even Thicker And More Solid Ones.

It Is My Object, In The Following Work, To Travel Over Ground Which Has As Yet Been Little Explored And To Make My Reader Acquainted With A Species Of Remains, Which, Though Absolutely Necessary For Understanding The History Of The Globe, Have Been Hitherto Almost Uniformly Neglected.

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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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 Or Less Varied, Which Almost All Contain Innumerable Products Of The Sea.