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There upon the ocean-floor gather their remains, a heaped-up multitude of minute skeletons or shells, layer forming over layer. It was long suspected that the white chalk cliffs of England were built up in some such manner as this through past ages.
Thus it follows that the fossils found in one description of rock, must be the fossils of animals which lived and died before the animals whose fossil remains are found in another neighboring rock, just because this last rock-layer was built upon the ocean-floor above and therefore later than the other.
These delicately "chambered" shells were once the homes of creatures which lived in the sunless depths of the ocean, for though it is totally dark at the bottom of the deep, deep sea, life is now known to exist at all depths below the surface of the ocean; on the ocean-floor starfishes and their relations abound, and some of those brought from a great depth are very beautiful indeed telling to those who have eyes to see, the same tale as the little fern buried in the coal that it is the glory of every created thing to show forth something of its Creator, even in hidden places where no human eye can trace its loveliness.
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