Hutton’s ideas from the late 18 th century have led to some of the most important discoveries in geology! Centuries ago, a man by the name of James Hutton was born. He grew up with an interest in just about everything science, normal for the time, but was captivated by geology. Many topics were still not well understood, geology was a relatively new science at the time, but one debate, one that had catastrophic consequences, was the debate over how marine fossils made it to mountaintops. This debate, and Hutton, had outcomes and ideas that led to most of the modern-day principles of geology. Hutton just may have been the most influential man in geology. Hutton’s Original Idea’s: Ahead of His Time Neptunists and Plutonists are the names given to the people who held a side in that debate. The Neptunists thought there were periods of great floods which covered the planet and that’s how marine fossils ended up on mountaintops. Plutonists thought that there were larger pr
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