The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. If my theory be true, whole geolog. forms of old & new world must be looked at as history of concession of ocean with continents of one portion of globe. CUL-DAR205.9.198. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. RN1

NOTE: The brown crayon number '22' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Palaeontology: extinction.

Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.9 contains notes on palaeontology and geology [regarding theory of evolution].

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If my theory be true, whole geolog. forms of old & new world must be looked at as history of concession of ocean with continents of one portion of globe - one mere disjointed fragment of History of whole world - It may be said why not more ancient beds discovered with terrestrial remains in other portions of globe. On average there may have been metamorphosed or if there are any older yet preserved we may feel sure they would only be marine ones - caverns & [illeg] & littoral deposits all removed - we have only some examples of ancient Estuary.

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