Thus, life on this earth has often been disturbed by dreadful events. Innumerable living creatures have been victims of these catastrophes.
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The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.George Cuvier
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.
George Cuvier
All solid parts of the earth therefore owe their origin to living things, and without that life the earth would be still entirely liquid.
George Cuvier
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 were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.
George Cuvier
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
George Cuvier
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