Status Updates From Earth in Upheaval

Pioneering geologist Charles Lyell was a craven 19th cent. aristocrat who hence discounted natural catastrophes in explaining the evolution of the earth. Because he disliked revolution so much. That's the gist of the argument so far.

"The figures are contorted, contracted, curved; the tail in many instances is bent around to the head; the spines stick out; the fins are spread to the full, as in fish that die in convulsions. The Pterichthys shows its arms extended at their stiffest angle, as if prepared for an enemy. The attitudes of all the ichthyolites [any fossil fish] on this platform are attitudes of fear, anger and pain."

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