By legend, gods and demons churned the primeval ocean, summoning treasures from the depths.
By standing on the floating bridge of heaven and stirring the primeval ocean with a heavenly jeweled spear, they created the first landmass.
Since it was believed that the primeval ocean continued to surround the ordered cosmos, the creation myth was reenacted each day as the sun god rose from the waters of chaos.
According to the terms of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, we human beings are the descendants of ape-like forebears and the remote descendants of one-celled organisms that once floated in a primeval ocean.
September 16, 1725 Soulaines, France September 28 , 1815Paris, France Nicolas Desmarest, (born Sept. 16, 1725, Soulaines, France died Sept. 28, 1815, Paris) French geologist whose discovery of the volcanic origin of basalt disproved the Neptunist theory that all rocks were formed by sedimentation from primeval oceans.
As already noted, hypophosphite and phosphite may have been abundant in the primordial ocean [ 252- 254, 256- 258] and could participate in the primeval photosynthesis.
As noted by Williams and Fraústo da Silva, the primeval anoxic ocean must have contained Fe2+ ions, which are more soluble than Fe3+ ions.
Since the concentration of phosphate in sea water is low (the phosphates of Ca and Mg are poorly soluble in water), it has been argued that more reduced compounds such as hypophosphite (phosphinate, PO2) and/or phosphite (phosphonate, PO3), which have better solubility in sea water, could have been abundant in the primeval, more reduced ocean [ 252- 258].
Although the old man's powers are failing, he has a primeval bond with the ocean and its creatures.
THE inland heart of South Jersey is a vast national preserve, a million acres of former ocean bottom, now a primeval terrain of craggy pines and impenetrable forest scrub.
Walton Ford's drawings recall a time when explorers roamed uncharted oceans, when rumors of primeval lands and exotic creatures fed our fears and dreams.
