Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901 / 2008-08-02 00:00:00

The shells of the sea, the
bones of fish, the remains of seals and whales, would have been taken
up by these great deluges, and carried over the land, and have
remained
[1. "The Great Ice Age," p. 26.]
{p. 11}
mingled in the _d?bris_ which they deposited. This is not the case.
The unstratified Drift is unfossiliferous, and where the stratified
Drift contains fossils they are the remains of land animals, except
in a few low-lying districts near the sea.
I quote:
"Over the interior of the continent _it contains no marine fossils or
relics_."[1]
Geikie says:
"_Not a single trace of any marine organism has yet been detected in
true till_."[2]
Moreover, if the sea-waves made these great deposits, they must have
picked up the material composing them either from the shores of the
sea or the beds of streams. And when we consider the vastness of the
drift-deposits, extending, as they do, over continents, with a depth
of hundreds of feet, it would puzzle us to say where were the
sea-beaches or rivers on the globe that could produce such
inconceivable quantities of gravel, sand, and clay.
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