The Elements of Geology; Adapted to the Use of Schools and Colleges

by Justin R. Loomis

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What causes are operating to destroy species?

SECTION VII.

How long has it been since the creation of the earth?

How does the amount of stratified rock indicate the great antiquity of the earth?

How does the stratification show the same thing?

What is the proof that the principal strata were deposited before the creation of man, and how does this fact bear upon the question of the antiquity of the earth?

Give the argument drawn from the successive creations and disappearance of animal and vegetable species.

The argument drawn from the amount of organic matter in the stratified rocks.