Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time - Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time - page 53

Thomas Burnet's Battleground of Time 53
Figure 2.9
Steno's geological history of Tuscany, as rearranged in the English translation
by J. G. Winter (1916), presumably to conform with the later geological
tradition (but not Steno's concept) of time as a linear sequence.
leaving the upper layer intact but excavating the strata below to yield a
precarious instability (figure 24). The crust collapses into the vacuities (figure
23) and the waters of Noah's flood rise to deposit another pile of sediments
within the newly formed basin (figure 22). During the subsequent calm after the
flood, vacuities