Introduction
Physical Geology
Historical Geology
Uniformitarianism
Course Outline
- History of Geology
- Basic Principles
- Geologic Time
- Determining the age of rocks
- Sedimentary Rocks
- Stratigraphy
- Major Theories
- Evolution of life
- Plate tectonics
- History of the Earth (North America)
- Precambrian to Recent
History of Geologic Thought
- 1654 Archbishop Ussher
- "4004 BC God created the earth"
- 1669 Nicolaus Steno
- Stratigraphy
- principle of superposition
- principle of original horizontality
- principle of lateral continuity
- Abraham Werner (1750-1817)
- neptunism
- primitive rocks
- transition rocks
- alluvium
- James Hutton (1726-1797)
- "Father of geology"
- plutonism
- uniformitarianism
- "Theory of the Earth" 1785
- Cyclical view of earth's history
- 1802 John Playfair "Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth"
- William "Strata" Smith
- principle of biologic succession
- Cuvier (1769-1832)
- catastrophism
- unconformity
- Charles Lyell (1830)
- "Principles of Geology"
- principle of cross-cutting relationships
- 1950's Geosynclinal Model
- 1960's Continental Drift
- 1970's & 1980's Plate Tectonics
- 1990's Earth Systems Science
Actualism
last updated 1-2-98
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