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Special thanks go to the convenors of the Lyell Meeting for their invitation and generous travel assistance.
When you see the signpost indicating Lyell it is difficult to believe that this isolated area once was the site of a gold rush.
However, in recent decades geologists have been saying that the gradualistic uniformitarianism of Charles Lyell does not match the evidence.
With this concept, he suggests, those great protagonists of uniformitarianism, Hutton and Lyell, would have agreed.
Incidentally, Lyell makes a common error, confusing canebrakes or native bamboo stands with prairies.
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.
Modern geologists do not apply uniformitarianism in the same fashion as Lyell and his contemporary scientists.
In a covering letter Wallace politely asked Darwin to forward the essay to Lyell.
Hegel described an evolution of ideas, Lyell an evolution of geological structures, and Darwin an evolution of biological species and varieties.
Lyell showed the earth was extremely old and that it had been, and still was being, shaped entirely by slow-moving forces.
A few years ago, around 75 Haida stopped logging trucks from taking the trees in South Moresby, on Lyell Island.
This concept was begun in 1795 by James Hutton and further developed by Charles Lyell who is considered the father of modern geology.
After a day of agonised reflection, Darwin sent the essay to Lyell, resigned to the terrible truth that he had lost priority.
Mount Lyell, mining area, western Tasmania, Australia.
Or drive past the dramatic landscape on the winding Lyell Highway.
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.
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.
Charles Lyell embraced the assumption that present-day rates of change and magnitude should be used to interpret the past record of geological activity.
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.
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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It has often been assumed that Lyell was led by the study of Hutton's works to adopt the uniformitarian' doctrines.
He was the forerunner of Lyell and of the uniformitarian school of geologists.
And if that is so, uniformitarianism, even as limited by Lyell, has no call to lower its crest.
The uniformitarian teaching which Lyell deduced from geological observation had gained acceptance.
I saw more of Lyell than of any other man, both before and after my marriage.
As a matter of taste, Lyell did not relish the application of evolutionism to his own species.
No one has read it, except Lyell, with whom I have had much correspondence.
Lyell in his letter remarked that you seemed to him as if you were overworked.
Lyell tells the following story of the Prince of Scilla, who with many of his vassals sought safety in their fishing boats.
These particulars are gathered from the text-books of Lyell and Geikie.
In fact, no one was better aware of this than Lyell himself.
I do not think Lyell will be nearly so much annoyed as you expect.
Sir Charles Lyell admits that the fact of augmentation is proved.
Because it is increasingly common for women to have repeat caesareans, Lyell said adhesions are of particular concern to this group of patients.
But I have reason to believe that one great authority, Sir Charles Lyell, from further reflexion entertains grave doubts on this subject.
Lyell has also given me four packets of dust which fell on a vessel a few hundred miles northward of these islands.
Hooker and Lyell were concerned because their friend Darwin had been working on a similar theory for several years.
Martin, who has worked with the firm for over a year as a divisional director, succeeds Alec Lyell, who is retiring after 18 years.
Many of the illustrations are taken from Lyell, and Winchell.
Lyell estimates the retrocession of the falls to be about a foot a year.
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