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Top: An 1865 engraving featuring the geologist Sir Charles Lyell. Bottom: An illustration from Lyell's "Elements of Geology," displaying an idealized cross-section of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks in the geological record.
1830: Charles Lyell’s Uniformitarianism – Unraveling Earth’s Timeless Mysteries

Charles Lyell's 1830 book "Principles of Geology" established uniformitarianism, proposing that current geological processes hold the key to understanding Earth's ancient history. This idea, opposing the catastrophism view, helped shape modern geology by advocating a [...]