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"The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit."

John Joly, Irish Scientist

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"The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit."

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"The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit."

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