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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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
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
The pole of the earth moves in a circle around the pole of the ecliptic its axis inclines more or less on the plane of this same ecliptic.
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
Thus, life on this earth has often been disturbed by dreadful events. Innumerable living creatures have been victims of these catastrophes.
George Cuvier
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.
George Cuvier
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