The crust of our earth is a great cemetery, where the rocks are tombstones on which the buried dead have written their own epitaphs. (Louis Agassiz)

The crust of our earth is a great cemetery, where the rocks are tombstones on which the buried dead have written their own epitaphs.

Louis Agassiz

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