The history of the earth is read in the rocks which have been thrust up by internal forces and beveled across by erosion. The nearer events are clearly recorded in the sequence and nature of the sedimentary rocks and their fossils.


In: Joseph Barrell and Charles Schuchert, The Evolution of the Earth and Its Inhabitants, Introduction (p. 1), Yale University Press. 1919

Joseph Barrell Quotes

The history of the earth is read in the rocks which have been thrust up by internal forces and beveled across by erosion. The nearer events are...

The history of the earth is read in the rocks which have been thrust up by internal forces and beveled across by erosion. The nearer events are...

The history of the earth is read in the rocks which have been thrust up by internal forces and beveled across by erosion. The nearer events are...

The history of the earth is read in the rocks which have been thrust up by internal forces and beveled across by erosion. The nearer events are...