The mass has been consolidated by the infiltration of coral mud, and hardened by partial solution and redeposition, until a great rampart of coral rock one hundred or one hundred and fifty feet high on its seaward face has been formed all round the island, with only such gaps as result from the outflow of rivers, in the place of sally-ports.
"Autobiography and Selected Essays"
Thomas Henry Huxley
The occurrence of all of them in one and the same upraised marine formation by no means implies that they belong to the same era, for in the beds of all great rivers and estuaries, there are changes continually in progress brought about by the deposition, removal, and redeposition of gravel, sand, and fine sediment, and by the shifting of the channel of the main currents from year to year, and from century to century.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell
They afford evidence at many points of repeated denudation and redeposition, and may be the monuments of a long series of ages.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell