Theory Of The Earth Or An Investigation Of The Laws Observable In The Composition Dissolution And

by James Hutton

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First edition

Edinburgh: J. Dickson for the Royal Society of Edinburgh, c.1787 . / First edition, extremely rare offprint c. August 1787 , preceding the journal publication of 1788, of the founding statement of modern geology. Rejecting cosmological and supernatural explanations, Hutton argued that the Earth's surface is shaped by continuous observable processes acting over immense time: erosion, sedimentation at the ocean floor, consolidation by subterranean heat,

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