Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 36
land under the sea is being perpetually built up,from the very same materials which the sea and therivers have so mercilessly stolen from continents andislands. This is the way, if geologists rightly judge,in which a very large part of the enormous formationsof Stratified or Sedimentary Rocks have… … Sea Cliffs showing a Series op StbatifiedRocks. slowly, layer upon layer, out of the gravel, sand, andmud, washed away from the land and dropped on theshore of the ocean. You may see these layers for yourself as you walkout into the country. Look at the first piece of bluffrock you comenear, and…
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