UC Davis Geology: International Year of Planet Earth

James Hutton

portrait of James Hutton by Abner Lowe.

June 3, 1726 - James Hutton's birthday.

Hutton (today referred to as the founder of modern geology) proposed the
Theory of Uniformitarianism - the belief that geological forces at work in the present
are the same as those that operated in the past.

Theory of the Earth

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