GEOS 170A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Basalt, Siccar Point, Plutonism
26 Jan 2017
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In 1785, james hutton, a scottish farmer who would come to be known as the father of geology, presented work from nearby siccar point that suggested that the earth has a long history of slow acting geologic processes. In your own words, explain the concept of uniformitarianism. Use at least one example of something on earth that is the result of slow acting geologic processes. Describe one other way that uniformitarianism was important for other disciplines besides geology. The theory that changes in the earth"s crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes (change these words) The processes that alter the earth are uniform through time. Like hutton, lyell viewed the history of earth as being vast and directionless. And the history of life was no different. The same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe.
