Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time - Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time - page 33

Figure 2.3
Burnet's physical cause of the deluge. The earth's crust cracks (fig. 1); water
rises from its layer in the abyss to cover the earth (fig. 2), and then retreats again
to leave modern continents (with mountains as edges of the cracked crust) and
oceans. (From first English edition.)