Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel

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upon the top of a mighty series of stratified rocks, laid down in the water of ancient seas and

every rock stratified like the leaves of a book; and every leaf containing the records of an intensely interesting history, illustra

h the pages of th

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It is with a vastly different

f this series of stratifie

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re digging a well. Let us observe

ey reach the stratified rocks on which this drift rests. It covers whole continents. It is our earth. It makes the basis of our soils; our railroads cut their way through it; our carriages drive over it; our

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with you in this work,--if you w

witnesses that you may cross-examine them. I shall try, to the best of my ability, to buttre

d what the Drift is, before we

ay be clearly defined strata here and there in it, but they are such as a tempest might make

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rs reaching over any l

over by rivers, and been distributed over limited ar

Drift, called in Scotland "the till," and in other countries

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scattered through that deposit imparted to it a confused and tumultuous appearance. T

trees. Part of it was deposited in a pell-mell or unstratified condition during the progress of the period,

, inclosing the transported fragments of rock, of all dimensions, partially rounded or worn into wedge-shaped forms,

through the Lowlands, "continuous across wide tracts," while in the Hig

reat Ice A