The earth is a vast cemetary where the rocks are the tombstones
on which the buried dead have written their own epitaphs
- Louis Agassiz
Race after race resigned their fleeting breath
The rocks alone their curious annals save.
- T. A. Conrad
Avicenna - Viz plastica
Georges Cuvier
William "Strata" Smith
Index fossils
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