Tag: Geology
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April 7, 2017
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
“It is only by becoming sensible of our natural disadvantages that we shall be roused to exertion, and prompted to seek out opportunities of discovering the operations now in progress, such as do not present themselves readily to view.” – Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell first published the Principles of Geology in 1830. However, over the next thirty years,