- god of the sea.
There was
considerable debate between its
proponents (
neptunists) and
those favouring a
rival theory known as
plutonism which gave a significant...
-
Neptunism to
prove their theory as well. The idea
contested Abraham Werner's
neptunist theory which proposed that the
Earth had
formed from a m**** of
water and...
- vulcanism,
which is the
deposition of lava from volcanoes, as
opposed to the
Neptunists, led by
Abraham Werner, who
believed that all
rocks had
settled out of...
- vulcanism,
which is the
deposition of lava from volcanoes, as
opposed to the
Neptunists, led by
Abraham Werner, who
believed that all
rocks had
settled out of...
- at
Freiberg School of
Mines in 1791
under A.G. Werner,
leader of the
Neptunist school of geology; from
anatomy at Jena
under J.C. Loder; and astronomy...
- in a
geological controversy on the
rival merits of the
Plutonian and
Neptunist hypotheses. They
travelled together to
examine the
Cornish coast accompanied...
- deserves." His new
theories placed him into
opposition with the then-po****r
Neptunist theories of the
German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner, that all rocks...
- had formed. He had read
about angular unconformities as
interpreted by
Neptunists, and
found an
unconformity at
Jedburgh where layers of
greywacke in the...
-
fomented debate,
particularly over the
origin of basalt, in the so-called
Neptunist-Plutonist controversy.
Among his most
famous students was
Alexander von...
- most
successful and
influential work as a scientist. He
there defended a
Neptunist theory of the
origin of the
Earth against the
Vulcanist theory later to...
