“So far as the evidence reaches, we have yet to learn that the fluctuations of the land, during the recent and tertiary periods, have been bounded within narrower limits than in the antecedent ages of the world.”

About Charles Lyell

Geologist • British

Sir Charles Lyell was a seminal British geologist who was a foremost proponent of uniformitarianism. His groundbreaking work, "Principles of Geology," argued that the Earth was shaped by the same slow-moving geological...