"Silicification" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... notion of "the aqueous precipitation of basalt," maintained the equally fanciful idea that the consolidation of all strata—clays, sandstones, conglomerates, limestones and even rock-salt—must be ascribed to the action of heat, and that even the formation of chalk-flints and the silicification of fossil wood were due to the ...
— The Coming of Evolution - The Story of a Great Revolution in Science • John W. (John Wesley) Judd |
