Special thanks go to the convenors of the Lyell Meeting for their invitation and generous travel assistance. |
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When you see the signpost indicating Lyell it is difficult to believe that this isolated area once was the site of a gold rush. |
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However, in recent decades geologists have been saying that the gradualistic uniformitarianism of Charles Lyell does not match the evidence. |
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With this concept, he suggests, those great protagonists of uniformitarianism, Hutton and Lyell, would have agreed. |
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Incidentally, Lyell makes a common error, confusing canebrakes or native bamboo stands with prairies. |
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Lyell became a close friend and strong supporter of Darwin who, years later, used Lyell's data on fossils to support his theory of evolution. |
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Modern geologists do not apply uniformitarianism in the same fashion as Lyell and his contemporary scientists. |
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In a covering letter Wallace politely asked Darwin to forward the essay to Lyell. |
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Hegel described an evolution of ideas, Lyell an evolution of geological structures, and Darwin an evolution of biological species and varieties. |
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Lyell showed the earth was extremely old and that it had been, and still was being, shaped entirely by slow-moving forces. |
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A few years ago, around 75 Haida stopped logging trucks from taking the trees in South Moresby, on Lyell Island. |
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This concept was begun in 1795 by James Hutton and further developed by Charles Lyell who is considered the father of modern geology. |
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After a day of agonised reflection, Darwin sent the essay to Lyell, resigned to the terrible truth that he had lost priority. |
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Mount Lyell, mining area, western Tasmania, Australia. |
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Or drive past the dramatic landscape on the winding Lyell Highway. |
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A German machine gun, positioned where the road crossed the river, tried to stop the Tasmanians but Lieutenant William Crosby and Sergeant Lyell Swan moved in behind it and killed the crew with grenades. |
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Sadly, scholars of the nineteenth century, under the influence of secular scientists like Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin, began to take the Flood story less than seriously. |
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Charles Lyell embraced the assumption that present-day rates of change and magnitude should be used to interpret the past record of geological activity. |
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The land had risen: Lyell, taking the uniformitarian position, had argued that geologic formations were the result of steady cumulative forces of the sort we see today. |
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Here you have a challenge to a uniformitarian viewpoint that basically every geologist and paleontologist had been trained in, as had their professors and their professors' professors, all the way back to Lyell. |
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He lashed out at the book in a letter to Charles Lyell, bemoaning the consequences of it conclusions. |
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The limits between Lyell's Tertiary subdivisions were not rigidly specified, and Lyell himself recognized the approximate and imperfect nature of his scheme. |
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Sir Charles Lyell, illustrious Scotsman, was ostracized when he published his Principles of Geology, but geology has advanced to its present state by working from Lyell's axiom. |
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In 1828, Charles Lyell incorporated a Tertiary Period into his own, far more detailed system of classification. |
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The megafauna extinction, it's now clear, did not take place all at once, as Lyell and Wallace believed it had. |
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Lyell was intrigued by Darwin's speculations without realising their extent. |
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Gray and Lyell sought reconciliation with faith, while Huxley portrayed a polarisation between religion and science. |
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Lyell had already popularised human prehistory, and Huxley had shown that anatomically humans are apes. |
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The book is a work of natural theology, and incorporates extracts from related correspondence of Herschel with Charles Lyell. |
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This distinguished it from the older Pliocene Epoch, which Lyell had originally thought to be the youngest fossil rock layer. |
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His colleagues there included Adam Sedgwick, William Conybeare, William Buckland, William Fitton, Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. |
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In 1846, together with Charles Lyell, he produced a lengthy and detailed report on a serious explosion in the colliery at Haswell County Durham, which killed 95 miners. |
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The Application of Ichnology to Palaeoenvironmental and Stratigraphic Analysis publishes papers presented at the Geological Society's 2003 Lyell Meeting. |
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The problem was investigated by Michael Faraday and Charles Lyell at the colliery at Haswell County Durham of 1844, but their conclusions were ignored at the time. |
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Turning his attention to Continental geology, he and Lyell explored the volcanic region of Auvergne, parts of southern France, northern Italy, Tyrol and Switzerland. |
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Even Darwin's close friends Gray, Hooker, Huxley and Lyell still expressed various reservations but gave strong support, as did many others, particularly younger naturalists. |
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