How is it possible for sandstone derived from sediment deposited in a beach environment to comprise a formation that blankets a broad region?

When you consider that the world wide flood covered the entire earth, it was depositing similar sediment over a giant area. Later erosion cut through these layers of sediment, thus fragmenting them across the globe.

Early in the story when tom finds an indian skull in the woods which he kicks in temper. the devil then makes his appearance and, as tom surveys him, he notices that the devil is neither "negro" nor "indian." in fact, he has a "swarthy" complexion and is "begrimed with soot."

Answer steam fog;