Post-tertiary

“In like manner the beds of superficial sand, clay, and gravel, with recent shells, on the coasts of Norway and Sweden, where the land has risen in Post-tertiary times, are so thin and scanty as to incline us to admit a similar proposition.”

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)

“’ 3 In like manner the beds of superficial sand, clay, and gravel, with recent shells, on the coasts of Norway and Sweden, where the land has risen in Post-tertiary times, are so thin and scanty as to incline us to admit a similar proposition.”

II. Uniformity Of Change