- 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...
- 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...
- had formed. He had read
about angular unconformities as
interpreted by
Neptunists, and
found an
unconformity at
Jedburgh where layers of
greywacke in the...
- 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...
- in a
geological controversy on the
rival merits of the
Plutonian and
Neptunist hypotheses. They
travelled together to
examine the
Cornish coast accompanied...
- from the
cooling of
molten rock, not
precipitation out of
water as the
Neptunists of the time believed. This
sight is said to have "filled him with delight"...
- and
those who
accepted his
theory were
known as
Diluvianists or
Neptunists. The
Neptunist thesis was the most po****r
during the late
eighteenth century...
