INT D280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scottish Highlands, James Hutton, James Ussher

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Interdisciplinary Undergraduate and Graduate Courses
• Course: INT D280
• Professor: Zac Robinson

Document Summary

In the past believed that the mountains were casted there by god. In the west, the christian bible stated that the beginning of the world was very recent: james usher - a man who calculated the beginning of the world 9am on. Monday, october 26, 4004 bc: mountains were made on the "third day of creation, thomas burnet - was dedicated as a chaperone for the grand tour for many young elites. Visits to paris, geneva, the alps, rome, milan, etc. There was localized disasters but the change has happened slowly over time: the great transformational effects has happened over a major series of time, james hutton - would walk back across the scottish highlands. He would practice his ability and to see landscapes in reverse (what they used to look like): he proposed the apparent permanentness of mountains was simply an illusion.