Earth & Environmental Science · Geology
A topic within Geology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Earth & Environmental Science.
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James Hutton
Argues the Earth is shaped by the same slow, ongoing processes observable today operating over an effectively unlimited span of time, founding the concept of deep time against a young, static Earth.
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Demonstrates that rock strata can be identified and correlated across distant outcrops by the fossils unique to each layer, the method underlying the entire geologic column.
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