The World Before the Deluge

Alps Ammonites ancient world animals appearance argillaceous banks basaltic basin beds belonging bones brachiopodes calcareous carbonic carboniferous caverns centre chalk clay coal measures composed cone conifers containing covered crater cretaceous crust crustaceans Cuvier débris deposits Devonian dicotyledonous earth elephant England eocene eruptions Europe existence extended feet ferns fishes flora forests formation fossil fragments France genera geological geologists gigantic glacier globe gneiss granite herbaceous hyænas Ichthyosaurus immense island Jurassic lava Lepidodendrons lime limestone living lower Lyell mammifera Mammoth marine marl mass Mastodon mineral miocene mollusks mountains natural occupied oolite organic period Permian plants pliocene present primitive red sandstone remains remarkable represented reptiles resembling rhinoceros rivers rocks sand Saurians says schists shells Sigillaria Silurian skeleton soil sometimes species stone strata surface teeth temperature terrestrial tertiary epoch thickness tion traces trachytic trees Trilobites trunks upheaval upper valley vapour vast vegetation volcanoes zoophytes