ESS104H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: James Hutton, Neptunism, Plutonism
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James hutton did not create it but was responsible for expounding this theory to the royal. Society of edinburgh and the general scientific community. Charles lyell would eventually synthesize the theories of plutonium and uniformitarianism into his textbook, principles of geology. Hutton"s theory of plutonism, processes that create and arrange rocks into the current landscape are driven by heat concealed within earth"s interior. Another fundamental aspect of hutton"s theory of plutonism is that rock-forming processes are constant and slow. Example of hutton identifying natural forces such gravity as a contributor to rock- forming processes. Hutton described this tilting as an expansion of the crust in certain places that brings marine sediments to the surface. Hutton never proposed a mechanism , but he did correctly identify that internal heat must have been the driving force responsible for this phenomenon. Hutton"s theory of plutonism recognized granite as an intrusive igneous body.
