Principles of Geology

"Principles of Geology" is a foundational masterpiece of scientific literature that fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the Earth's history. In this influential third volume, Charles Lyell continues his rigorous exploration of the geological processes that have shaped the planet over vast periods of time. Central to the work is the doctrine of uniformitarianism-the revolutionary idea that the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day universe have always operat...