Years before his friend Charles Darwin would turn Lyell’s head toward evolutionary views, the Scottish champion of uniformitarianism tried to find a balancing point between […] ...

Simply put, the fossils at Claiborne and around Tuscaloosa, ... You can be a world away on another continent 100 years later and Lyell's principles of geology and uniformitarianism still work." ...

Charles Darwin almost doesn’t mention fossils in his work about the Origin of Species, ... However, influenced by Lyell's Uniformitarianism, Darwin soon adopted and in end published a much more ...

The famous phrase, a distillation of the principle of uniformitarianism, can be seen emblazoned on mugs, bumper stickers, and more in college geology departments around the country.

In 2002, flood waters from Canyon Lake dam reservoir in central Texas were diverted into an emergency spillway at nearly 200 times the normal flow rate. The resulting flood event, which lasted for ...

In 1830 the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875), building on Hutton’s work, advanced the principle of “uniformitarianism,” which held that past geological changes were not caused by ...