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these formations are found fossil remains of corals and 

 molluscous animals. For these formations fell first of all 

 after the water had a solid bottom, and the granitic 

 mountains projected above it. 



SEDIMENTARY OR STRATIFIED ROCKS. 



630. The period had now arrived in which the funda- 

 mental earths, being upon the whole completed, predomi- 

 nate. That which was separated in a chemical way from the 

 Earthy out. of water, has been in great part precipitated. 

 This period, however, although the first and most exten- 

 sive, indicates but the half of Geogeny, or as yet only 

 one pole in the genesis, which requires the other. In 

 the beginning both poles were in the water, that of the 

 fundamental earths as well as that of the calcareous 

 earth ; the light shone upon, dissevered them, and earths, 

 the most heterogeneous in respect to water, were first of 

 all precipitated. 



631. While the fundamental earths were precipitated, 

 the calcareous earth was repelled and retained, on 

 account of its homogeneity, in water, because the acid 

 half continued longer fluid than the basic. The water 

 was thus after its separation from these substances a true 

 limewater. 



632. Through this separation, however, the great 

 antagonism in the water ceased ; and subordinate anta- 

 gonisms now made their appearance, which were kept 

 united by the former, The calcareous earth is now 

 occupied no more as one pole, but is the whole water 

 itself, upon which, as it is less deep, the light acts anew 

 and with greater force. 



633. The disintegrations of earths began just at this 

 period to multiply themselves, from the only fettering 

 agent, namely gravity, having betaken itself to rest ; 

 every earthy now emerges from its connexions, the fac- 

 tors falling wholly asunder into alkalies and acids, which 

 combine in a multifarious manner. 



634. These disintegrations associated with the torrents 

 of water that were now everywhere present prevented 



