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— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon"We can only penetrate the rind of the earth."
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influence which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.
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