The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine . vements quite altered the configuration of the olderrocks at the surface, and especially led to the formation of a largecontinent extending over all the northern, central, and westernportions of Europe. This was the Triassic continent, and it wasduring this long land or continental period that the older rocksassumed the shape and form that is roughly represented in SectionC. They were wasted and washed away by the continued actionof the atmosphere, rivers, and other forces of Nature until theyfinally assumed the forms (problematic of
The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine . vements quite altered the configuration of the olderrocks at the surface, and especially led to the formation of a largecontinent extending over all the northern, central, and westernportions of Europe. This was the Triassic continent, and it wasduring this long land or continental period that the older rocksassumed the shape and form that is roughly represented in SectionC. They were wasted and washed away by the continued actionof the atmosphere, rivers, and other forces of Nature until theyfinally assumed the forms (problematic of course) shown on after which they became the bottom of an ocean and had thenewer rocks, or upper series, as shown on the same section, depositedon them. And this long period of time when these various agencieswere at work removing the old land surfaces, and re-depositing thedebris elsewhere explains clearly, I trust, the great break both intime and in the continuity of life which is denoted by the un-comformability of the strata- SE£fectioji A. Whiteinan. « London. 1} Sfectian B
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