In the year A. D., 1830, there was no possible human
means by which the translator of the record that relates the events of A. D. 33
in the central part of the American continent, could have known that a
condition precedent to the three days’ darkness was the terrific upheaval in
nature which he also recites. (James H. Anderson, "The Book of III Nephi," The Young Woman's Journal 35, no. 1
[January 1924]:14)
Further
Reading:
Jerry D.
Grover, Jr., Geology of the Book of Mormon
