GEOL 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: James Ussher, James Hutton, Georges Cuvier

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 104
• Professor: Daniel Layton- Matthews

Document Summary

Georges cuvier thought the same thing as usher. Uniformitaisnism- the physical, chemical, and the biological laws that operated throughout the geologic past by james hutton. Rst person to put out a book about cross section of earth. Lyell published it in the principles of geology nuclear theory. 2900km thick lower mantle is a solid outer core is liquid- 2900k core solid hot iron and nickel no water down there. Thee rock groups igneous rock sedimentary rock derived from weathering of pre-existing rocks metamorphic rocks formed by changing pre-existing igneous, sedimentary or other metamorphic rocks forced by heat and pressure metamorphosis of existing materials.