ANP 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Genesis Flood Narrative, Dynamic Earth, Deep Time
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Earthmoving of industrial revolution created a demand for new discipline - geology. Gradual, long-term processes of erosion, weathering, sedimentation acted in the past as well as today(grand canyon) Principle of uniformitarianism - the rate of which we see these processes occurring today suggests that the earth must be much older than 6000yrs old present is the key to the past. 1830s - charles lyell"s principles of geology: being an attemptnow in operation . Lyell wrote geological evidences of the antiquarian of man 1863. 1836 - boucher de perthes found stone artifacts w/ bones in somme river, france. 1858 - cave at brixham, england - stone artifact along w/ extinct ice age rhinos, etc in sealed stratigraphic context. 1859 - darwin"s on the origins of species described theory and mechanisms of evolution, gradual, long-term process of biological change. Originally classified as a antediluvian - species wiped out be the biblical flood.
