travertines

Updated: June 22, 2025

To the same conclusion we are brought if we consider the filling of lakes, the deposit of travertines, the denudation of hills, the cutting action of the sea on its shores, the undermining of cliffs, the weathering of rocks by atmospheric water and carbonic acid. Sedimentary strata must have been originally deposited in planes nearly horizontal.

John William Draper - History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science