When1: 1833
Who: Charles Lyell [Lyell, Charles]
What: geologist
Where: England
works\ Principles of Geology [1833]
Detail: He lived 1797 to 1875. Wind, water, pressure, and heat forces can make mountains, riverbeds, coastlines, and other land shapes. Events observed in present explain events in past. World always has same laws {uniformitarianism}.
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