It is folly to suppose that all the matter of aqueous beds were deposited from previous aqueous beds by denudation. How were subsequent lime deposits made from silicious Archaean beds? Denudation has taken place in all ages, and a fall and precipitation of exotic matter—tellurio-cosmic matter—aided in the work.
CONCLUSIONS REACHED.
1. All terrestial waters were held in suspension.
2. This rotated as a part and parcel of the earth—a primeval atmosphere of great complexity of material.
3. This suspended matter gathered in the earth’s equatorial heavens, and on condensing contracted and segregated into rings which revolved independently.
4. The waters on high fell in a succession of stupendous cataclysms.
5. The first ocean was impregnated with mineral and metallic salts.
6. It required a vast lapse of time for rings to fall. Each ring continued to revolve as a belt about the earth with a decreasing velocity as it spread toward the poles and overcanopied the earth.
7. The smoke or unconsumed carbon that arose from the earth, darkened the upper vapors and formed bands or belts.
8. The moon retarded the rings, causing them to fall upon the earth, and it then receded from our planet.