Cyclical Deluges An Explication of the Chief Phenomena of the Globe By Proofs
Cyclical Deluges An Explication of the Chief Phenomena of the Globe By Proofs
William Bassett Walker
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At the period of deposition of the coal we must have had dry land for the growth of the coal plants. After the deposition of the coal the Island must have undergone depression, and as it sank the various tertiaries must have deposited above the coal. * Not yet perhaps did the volcanic eruptions commence, but as the country gradually sank and reached its point of greatest depression, the crust of the earth was broken and streams of basalt flowed over the surface ; the depression probably reachin...g a depth of 1, 800 or 2, 000 feet. " Further on we find, ' ' Nature having completed her work so * Here must be an error, as the brown coal of both New Zealand and Tasmania is tertiary not supra-tertiary -as Mr. Crawford would lead us to believe. 58 CYCLICAL DELUGES. far, the Island commenced to rise again, slowly and steadily, by slightly disarranging the tertiary rocks on either side of the Island, the volcanic eruptions doubtless still continuing. The Island appears to have rested in its rise at various points at from 1, 000 to 1, 200 feet;* at 400, 150 to 200 feet; at 15, and at 9 and 4 feet.
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