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Theory of the Earth is a publication by James Hutton which laid the foundations for geology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In it he showed that the Earth is the product of natural forces. What could be seen happening today, over long periods of time, could produce what we see in the rocks.
Hutton's (1788), "Theory of the Earth." Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 1, no. 20. Hutton's (1795–1899), Theory of the earth, with proofs and illustrations, 3 vols. John Playfair (1802), Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the Earth; John Playfair (1815), Explication de Playfair sur la théorie de la terre par Hutton ...
Hutton hit on a variety of ideas to explain the rock formations he saw, and, after a quarter century of work, [1] he read his paper, Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws Observable in the Composition, Dissolution and Restoration of Land upon the Globe, to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 7 March and 4 April 1785.
Before James Hutton, most geological theorists had dealt only with processes of decay. The earth was created and its geologic structures just wore down through catastrophic events like weathering and especially the biblical Flood. [1] [2] Hutton introduced the concept of repair into geology and, with it, the notion of deep time.
James Hutton based his view of deep time on a form of geochemistry that had developed in Scotland and Scandinavia from the 1750s onward. [6] As mathematician John Playfair, one of Hutton's friends and colleagues in the Scottish Enlightenment, remarked upon seeing the strata of the angular unconformity at Siccar Point with Hutton and James Hall in June 1788, "the mind seemed to grow giddy by ...
Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature could explain a climate shift at the time. ... Earth ring theory may shed ...
Hutton, J (1795). Theory of the Earth: with proofs and illustrations. Edinburgh: Cadell, Davies and Creech. ISBN 978-1-897799-78-9. There has been exerted an extreme degree of heat below the strata formed at the bottom of the sea.
He is best known for his book Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), which summarised the work of James Hutton. [1] It was through this book that Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism, later taken up by Charles Lyell, first reached a wide audience.