The geologist has never yet found the base of the aqueous rocks, nor
can he know how deep their foundations extend. When the Laurentian
stratified beds were formed there was an ocean on the earth. A portion
of the tellurio-cosmic waters had fallen.
In the bowlder and conglomerate rocks found in every age of geology
there is proof that glaciers invaded the earth after the declension of
each Annular stratum. The Annular matter extended in comparatively
narrow belts over the equator. As the lower stratum was attracted
toward the earth it gradually spread out toward the polar regions,
causing a warm climate all over the earth, and melting the snows and
glaciers at the poles. This lasted untold ages until a tropic and
semi-tropical vegetation spread over the earth. After its fall arctic
cold invaded the north and south poles, pushing a vast ice cap toward
the equator, which remained until another stratum of annular vapors
spread over the globe. These ages of warmth and ages of cold continued
to alternate until the fall of the last ring of vapors, which took
place at the time of the Noachian deluge, causing that catastrophe.
The sudden destruction of life, at the end of each age in geology, must
have been caused by sudden cold. The waters reaching the earth at the
poles must cause refrigeration; must cause excessive floods; must cause
extermination of specific forms of life; must cause new distribution
and condition of oceanic waters, and caused great folding and crumpling
of strata.
In the dissolving of glaciers a vast pressure was lifted from the
continents and transferred to the ocean beds, causing them to go down
and the land to be elevated.