Therefore he concluded the sandstone layers as well as the underlying coal deposit were likely to have formed during a rapid cataclysmal event. |
Lyall in England had shown that geological formations were evolutionary rather than cataclysmal. |
That they have been exterminated by exceptional cataclysmal changes of the earth's surface has not been proved. |
It is, in fact, nothing but one cataclysmal bang and shriek of shells and shrapnel. |
As the Special Rapporteur points out in his Fourth Report, armed conflicts are cataclysmal events in the life of treaties, certainly more so than other grounds of termination, withdrawal or suspension. |
Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two. |