Many cases could be given of the lower beds of a formation having been upraised, denuded, submerged, and then re-covered by the upper beds of the same formation—facts, showing what wide, yet easily overlooked, intervals have occurred in its accumulation.

可以举地层的下部地层被抬升、 剥蚀、淹没， 然后被同地层的上部地层重新覆盖的许多案例— — 事实表，在其积累过程中了多么宽阔但容易被忽视的间隔.

Still less can this have happened during the alternate periods of elevation; or, to speak more accurately, the beds which were then accumulated will generally have been destroyed by being upraised and brought within the limits of the coast-action.

在海拔交替的时期更不可这种情况。或者，更准确地说， 当时堆积的河床通常会因抬高并被带入海岸活动范围内而被毁坏。