Earth & Environmental Science · Geology
A topic within Geology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Earth & Environmental Science.
2 works
Naomi Oreskes (The Royal Institution)
Retells the acceptance of plate tectonics as a case study in how evidence actually persuades a scientific community, and argues the standard account understates who supplied the decisive data.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Charles Lyell
Argues that the same slow processes visible today — erosion, sedimentation, gradual uplift — are sufficient to explain the entire rock record given enough time, displacing sudden catastrophe as geology's default explanation.
about 29 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copy