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Charles Lyell
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A nineteenth century Scottish geologist whose Principles of Geology carried James Hutton's uniformitarianism to a mass readership, replacing catastrophist explanations of Earth's history with the patient accumulation of ordinary, observable processes over vast time.
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BirthplaceKinnordy House, Angus, Scotland 1 Defining ContributionPresented to a wide public audience, through Principles of Geology, the idea that the earth was shaped by the same natural processes still in operation today, establishing uniformitarianism as a foundational geological principle for generations of scientists including Charles Darwin. 1 Notable WorkPrinciples of Geology (1830 to 1833) 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Lyell folded the principle into the systematic relative-dating toolkit of Principles of Geology (1830).
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