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2. Historical geology - Wikipedia

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   Historical geology. Historical geology or palaeogeology is a discipline that uses the principles and methods of geology to reconstruct the geological history of Earth. [ 1] Historical geology examines the vastness of geologic time, measured in billions of years, and investigates changes in the Earth, gradual and sudden, over this deep time.

3. List of important publications in geology - Wikipedia

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   The Geographical Journal. 14 (5): 481–504. doi: 10.2307/1774538. JSTOR 1774538. In his 1899 publication William Morris Davis outlines in detail the cycle of erosion model laying the foundations for the study of peneplains, relief development and denudation chronology. Łozinski, W. (1912).

4. Charles Lyell - Wikipedia

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   Principles of Geology 3rd edition, 4 vols. May 1834; Principles of Geology 4th edition, 4 vols. June 1835; Principles of Geology 5th edition, 4 vols. March 1837; Principles of Geology 6th edition, 3 vols. June 1840; Principles of Geology 7th edition, 1 vol. Feb. 1847; Principles of Geology 8th edition, 1 vol. May 1850

5. Principles of Geology - Wikipedia

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   Map of isothermal lines across North America and Europe from Lyell's Principles of Geology (6th edition). Published in three volumes in 1830–1833 by John Murray, the book established Lyell's credentials as an important geological theorist and popularized the doctrine of uniformitarianism (first suggested by James Hutton in Theory of the Earth published in 1795). [3]

6. History of geology - Wikipedia

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   In 1741 the best-known institution in the field of natural history, the National Museum of Natural History in France, created the first teaching position designated specifically for geology. [19] This was an important step in further promoting knowledge of geology as a science and in recognizing the value of widely disseminating such knowledge.

7. Geological history of Earth - Wikipedia

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   The geological history of the Earth follows the major geological events in Earth's past based on the geological time scale, a system of chronological measurement based on the study of the planet's rock layers ( stratigraphy ). Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago by accretion from the solar nebula, a disk-shaped mass of dust and gas left ...