"Superjacent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... suddenly, without anything leading up to them. Even this the second difficulty, however, admits of being fully met, when we remember that in very many cases it has been proved, quite apart from the theory of descent, that superjacent formations have been separated from one another by wide intervals of time. And even although it often happens that intermediate deposits which are absent in one part of the world are present in another, we have no right to assume that such ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes |
