- the day, took
sides with the
neptunists. The
fourth act of his
famous work
Faust contains a
dialogue between a
neptunist and a plutonist, the
latter being...
-
limestone as
having resulted from
processes like
those described by the
neptunists. Comparatively,
plutonism within uniformitarianism is
equivalent to neptunism...
- 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...
-
dispute between the
neptunists and plutonists. In 1789 he
returned to
present papers on
basalt and
argued against the
neptunists,
suggesting that basalts...
- had formed. He had read
about angular unconformities as
interpreted by
Neptunists, and
found an
unconformity at
Jedburgh where layers of
greywacke in the...
- 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...
- "Plutonist" in
contrast to the flood-oriented theory. As well as
combating the
Neptunists, he also
accepted the
growing consensus on the
concept of deep time for...
-
fomented debate,
particularly over the
origin of basalt, in the so-called
Neptunist-Plutonist controversy.
Among his most
famous students was
Alexander von...
- in a
geological controversy on the
rival merits of the
Plutonian and
Neptunist hypotheses. They
travelled together to
examine the
Cornish coast accompanied...
