Who was James hutton and what did he do?

Answer 1

James Hutton (MD), was a Scottish geologist, physician, naturalist, chemist and experimental farmer. He is considered the father of modern geology. His theories of geology and geologic time, also called deep time, came to be included in theories which were called plutonism and uniformitarianism. (Wikipedia)

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Answer 2

James huttons discovery was the theory of the Earth. His disovery made an idia that fusion of sediments worse by the great heat which James believed the exist beneath the lower regions of the earths crust.

Answer 3

James Hutton contributed ideas of uniformitarianism, and came up with the theory that because of the build up of rocks around valcanoes, that Earth must be very old. Also, I think he came up with the rock cycle.

Answer 4

Principles of Geology!

James Hutton, 1726-1797,(sometimes known as the Father of Geology), was a farmer/landowner in Berwickshire, south of Edinburgh, Scotland. He postulated that the rocks he saw on his travels were not thousands of years old as many then thought, but many millions of years old.

When studying the rocks at Jedburgh and on the coast at Siccar Point he realised that the lower sequence, which was once laid down horizontally at the bottom of an ocean, was now in many places almost vertical and the upper sequence was almost horizontal. But the real surprise was between the two when he noticed worn pebbles of the lower sequence incorporated into the base of the upper rocks. This meant that the lower rocks had been extensively folded, brought above sea level and eroded for a long time before the upper sequence was laid down.

Answer 5

1. 1. James Hutton was born in Edinburgh,Scotland.He was trained to be a doctor.However after Hutton inherited a farm from his father, he became interested in natural forces at work on Earths surface.At the time scientist thought that all rocks were sedimentary rocks.Hutton had a diff rent idea.He said that many rocks, such as granite,were once molten or melted rock.Hutton also showed that mountains could be formed by the upward push of igneous rocks. Hutton published his ideas in a book called "Theory of the Earth'" in 1795. Based on his studies of Earth,Hutton proposed a theory about the history of earth.Hutton theory said that earth was shape in the past by the same forces such as erosion and sedimentation that were still at work. Hutton is sometimes called "THE FATHER OF GEOLOGY"

Answer 6

James Hutton was a Scottish geologist known as the father of modern geology. He proposed the theory of uniformitarianism, which suggested that geological processes occurring today have also occurred in the past at a similar rate, shaping the Earth's surface over long periods of time. His work laid the foundation for the understanding of Earth's geologic processes and deep time.

Answer 7

A geologist and naturalist who was against the theory of evolution.

Answer 8

Geology: that held that profound geological changes took place through the cumulative effect of slow but continuous processes identical to those currently operating.