|Evidence supplied by Geology and by the relative distribution
of living and extinct Animals and Plants (3796 total words in
this text) The Lost Lemuria Evidence supplied by Geology and by
the relative distribution of living and extinct Animals and
Plants. It is generally recognised by science that what is now
dry land, on the surface of our globe, was once the ocean floor,
and that what is now the ocean floor was once dry land.
Geologists have in some cases been able to specify the exact
portions of the earth's surface where these subsidences and
upheavals have taken place, and although the lost continent of
Atlantis has so far received scant recognition from the world of
science, the general concensus of opinion has for long pointed
to the existence, at some prehistoric time, of a vast southern
continent to which the name of Lemuria has been assigned. "The
history of the earth's development shows us that the
distribution of land and water on its surface is ever and
continually changing. In consequence of ge