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1. Charles Lyell was a lawyer from Scotland.
2. Charles Lyell was the son of a wealthy gentleman who had inherited a large estate in Scotland.
3. Charles Lyell, the eldest son of Charles Lyell, was born at Kinnordy, Forfar, the family estate, on Nov. (Web site)
4. Charles Lyell was born in Kinnordy, Angus, the eldest of ten children.
5. Then Charles Lyell, the real founder of modern geology, proposed another theory in the 1830s that better supported naturalism. (Web site)

Geological

1. However, the uniformitarian criticisms of John Fleming and Charles Lyell eventually led Buckland to abandon this interpretation of the geological evidence. (Web site)

Hutton

1. For those who don't know, Hutton was the predecessor of Charles Lyell and believed in an old earth without a global flood.

Darwin

1. An eager Charles Lyell met Darwin on 29 October and introduced him to the up-and-coming anatomist Richard Owen. (Web site)

Charles Darwin

1. The discovery of the evolution of man is attributed to two scientists of the 19th century: Sir Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. (Web site)

Geological Survey

1. In co-operation with Adam Sedgwick and Charles Lyell he prepared the report leading to establishment of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

Geologists

1. Charles Lyell suggested that besides volcanic, plutonic, and sedimentary rocks, geologists needed a fourth category, which he called metamorphic. (Web site)
2. The position of Sir Charles Lyell, as opposed to Georges Baron de Cuvier's Catastrophism, in last century's quarrel among geologists. (Web site)

Geology

1. Sir Charles Lyell first published his famous book, Principles of Geology[ 7], in 1830. (Web site)

Modern Geology

1. This concept was begun in 1795 by James Hutton and further developed by Charles Lyell who is considered the father of modern geology. (Web site)

Charles Lyell

1. When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle, he took with him a book written by Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology.
2. Modern geology relies on a number of established principles, one of the most important of which is Charles Lyell 's principle of uniformitarianism.

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