Hippolytus, Ref. 1, 14, 5

from Kirk, Raven, and Schofield, 1983

Xenophanes thinks that a mixture of the eaaarth with the sea is going on, an dthat in time the earth is dissolved by the moist. He says that he has demmonstrations of the following kind: shells are found inland and in the mountains, and in the quarries in Syracuse he says that an impression of a fish and of seaweed has been found, while an impression of a bay-leaf was found in Paros in the depth of the rock, and in Malta flat shapes of all maaarine objects. These, he says, were produced when everything was long ago covered with mud, and the impression was dried in the mud. All mankind is destroyed whenever the earth is carried down into the sea and becomes mud; then there is another beginning of coming-to-be, and this foundaation happens for all the worlds.