The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

- James Dwight Dana

There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of God-made har…

- James Dwight Dana

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science, it has bee…

- James Dwight Dana

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow a…

- James Dwight Dana

Mr Hall's hypothesis has its cause for subsidence, but none for the lifting of the thickened sunken crust into mountains. It is a theory for the orig…

- James Dwight Dana

Most agreeable are the memories of events and labours, connected with the cruise:- of companions in travel, ... of coral islands with their groves, a…

- James Dwight Dana

A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration of volcani…

- James Dwight Dana

For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sher…

- James Dwight Dana

Are coral reefs growing from the depths of the oceans? ... [The] reply is a simple negative; and a single fact establishes its truth. The reef-formin…

- James Dwight Dana