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.
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Thus, life on this earth has often been disturbed by dreadful events. Innumerable living creatures have been victims of these catastrophes.George Cuvier
In my work on Fossil Bones, I set myself the task of identifying the animals whose fossilized remains fill the surface strata of the earth.
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.
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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
No doubt, the European traveler does not easily cross the vast extents of territory, deserted or supporting only ferocious peoples.
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Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.
George Cuvier
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