They are rarely overlaid with more recent formations, but stand forth as tangible evidence of the great antiquity of this region.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
And, second, we must not forget the intense denudation which they have experienced, so that miles and miles of strata which once existed have been swept away, and their materials built up into new formations.
"Geology"
James Geikie
The literary class of Queen Anne's day was admirably qualified for certain formations: the Wits leading the 'town,' and forming a small circle accepting certain canons of taste, could express with admirable clearness and honesty the judgment of bright common sense; the ideas which commend themselves to the man of the world, and to a rationalism which was the embodiment of common sense.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen