IV.—A Sketch of Geological History, being the Natural History of the Earth and of its Pre-Human Inhabitants. By Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.K.S. 8vo. pp. 179. Coloured Sections. (London, 1887.)

1888 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 172-174
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Geological History ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of

Geology and Evolution

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-106
Author(s):  
Bill Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Geological Time ◽  
Directional Model ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Evolution Of Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Life On Earth

The dominant school of geology in Edinburgh in the early nineteenth century was that of the followers of the German mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner. His most important disciple in the English-speaking world was Edinburgh’s professor of natural history, Robert Jameson. The Wernerians believed that the history of the earth was fundamentally directional; they believed the earth started out as a ball of hot fluid from which the different rocks that now form the crust of the planet gradually precipitated out over geological time. It is argued in this chapter that this directional model of the geological history of the earth was peculiarly compatible with a progressive model of the history of life on earth. The changes in the physical condition of the earth over geological time were seen by some Wernerian geologists as driving the evolution of life.

Dead-Ends and New Directions

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-347
Author(s):  
Jean Francesco A.L. Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
Good Science ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Earth ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evolutionary Science ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation

Abstract The aim of this article is to investigate how Abraham Kuyper and some late neo-Calvinists have addressed the doctrine of creation in light of the challenges posed by evolutionary scientific theory. I argue that most neo-Calvinists today, particularly scholars from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), continue Kuyper’s legacy by holding the core principles of a creationist worldview. Yet, they have taken a new direction by explaining the natural history of the earth in evolutionary terms. In my analysis, Kuyper’s heirs at the VU today offer judicious parameters to guide Christians in conversation with evolutionary science, precisely because of their high appreciation of good science and awareness of the nonnegotiable elements that make up the orthodox Christian narrative.

NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIOSPHERE AS A KEY TO SOLVE ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS (TO THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF A.N. TYURYUKANOV)

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-136
Author(s):  
Valeriy SNAKIN
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Soil Science ◽  
Natural Scientist ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
90Th Anniversary ◽  
History Of ◽  
Landscape Geochemistry ◽  
Nature Development

Anatolij Nikiforovich Tyuryukanov (1931-2001), Dr.Sci (Biol.), professor was a remarkable Russian natural scientist, who made a signifi contribution to soil science and the theory of the biosphere. Investigation of Tyuryukanov’s works shows both evolution of the author’s scientifi interests and development of natural history in Russia in 20th century. He formulated the biosphere natural history principle founded on a new fundamental category of sciences foundation in 20th century. Th principle is based on genetic soil science, biogeocenology, landscape geochemistry and main branches of the Earth biosphere and vitasphere study. Interesting and sometimes unexpected assertions of A.N. Tyuryukanovs provide food for thought about both further studies of nature, development of biosphere study and refl on the human and biosphere relationships.

scholarly journals II. Observations on Granite

1794 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The State ◽  
Hard Materials ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fluid Matter

Since reading the paper upon the theory of the earth, I have been employed in examining many parts of this country, in order to enquire into the natural history of granite. In this undertaking, I have succeeded beyond my most flattering expectations; and I am now to communicate to this Society the result of my observations.In the paper just referred to, it was maintained, from many different arguments, that all the solid strata of the earth had been consolidated by means of subterraneous heat, softening the hard materials of those bodies; and that in many places, those consolidated strata had been broken and invaded by huge masses of fluid matter similar to lava, but, for the most part, perfectly distinguishable from it. Granite also was considered there as a body which had been certainly consolidated by heat; and which had, at least in some parts, been in the state of perfect fusion, and certain specimens were produced, from which I drew an argument in support of this conclusion.

LEONARDO DA VINCI’S AND NICOLAUS STENO’S GEOLOGY

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-331
Author(s):  
GIAN BATTISTA VAI
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Evaluation ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Angular Unconformity ◽  
Geologic Time ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Relative Chronology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Do So

Anniversaries for the two founding fathers of geology occurring in the same year prompted a comparative evaluation of how the two contributed to establishing the basic principles of the discipline. To do so, passages from their publications, codices and manuscripts have been quoted directly. The Stenonian principles (‘original horizontality’, ‘original continuity’, and ‘superposition of individual strata’) are present in Leonardo’s notebooks amazingly formulated, using similar wording when studying the same area more than 150 years earlier. Also, Stenonian priority in naming and explaining geological concepts and processes (e.g., faulting, folding, angular unconformity, relative chronology) are mirrored in Leonardo’s writings and pictorial works. While Steno enjoys priority in stepwise restoration of the geological history of a given region, Leonardo was the first to construct a 3D geological profile representation and geomorphologic maps. Lastly, the paper focuses on diverging stances of the two savants about the Noachian Deluge and the age of the Earth. Already 500 years ago, Leonardo had solved the question of marine fossil remains of organic origin found in the mountains implying the possibility of deep geologic time in a statement of ‘eternalism’. 350 years ago, Steno solved the same question in a different way in which he retained a basic role for the Deluge and assumed a short age for the Earth by focusing mainly on short-lived sedimentary and geomorphologic processes.

scholarly journals V. An account of books. I. An essay toward a natural history of the earth, and terrestrial bodies, especially minerals: As also of the sea, rivers, and springs. With an account of the universal deluge, and of the effects that it had upon the earth. By John Woodward, M. D. Professor of Physick in Gresham College, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Printed for Ric. Wilkin at the King's Head in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1695. Octavo. 2. An account of a paper, entituled, archibaldi pitcarnii, M. D. disser

1695 ◽  
Vol 19 (217) ◽  
pp. 115-124
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Great Weight ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of

V. An account of books. I. An essay toward a natural history of the earth, and terrestrial bodies, especially minerals: As also of the sea, rivers, and springs. With an account of the universal deluge, and of the effects that it had upon the earth. By John Woodward, M. D. Professor of Physick in Gresham College, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Printed for Ric. Wilkin at the King's Head in St. Paul's Church-yard. 1695. Octavo. 2. An account of a paper, entituled, archibaldi pitcarnii, M. D. dissertatio de Febribus, &c. The Author of this Book having with great Industry, and no less Success, made Enquiry into many considerable Parts of Nature, hath thought fit here to set forth an Account of several of his Observations, and of certain Conclusions which he hath drawn from them, whereof many are indeed of great weight and moment, but all in a compendious manner, as intending this Discourse only as a Prœlude to one-much larger, and to comply with the Importunities of some Persons of Worth, who .requested a brief Account of these things from him, for their present Satisfaction, until his Affairs should permit the compleating of his Greater Work, which he promiseth, with a further Proof both of these, and of others not yet proposed.

scholarly journals V. Notes on Charnwood forest

1865 ◽  
Vol 2 (17) ◽  
pp. 498-501
Author(s):  
D. Mackintosh
Keyword(s):  
Geological History ◽  
Red Sandstone ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of

In the midst of a comparatively tame and highly cultivated plain of New Red Sandstone near the centre of England, there rises up a part of the under crust of the earth which presents so much the appearance of an island as to lead the imagination at once to those remote ages when its porphyritic Peaks and Syenitic Knolls were surrounded by the sea. The geological history of this celebrated spot has been skilfully unravelled by Professors Sedgwick and Jukes (Article in Potters's Charnwood Forest); the Rev. W. H. Coleman (Article in White'Directory); Mr. Edward Hull (Memoirs of Geol. Survey); and others.

scholarly journals Methodological aspects of regional metallogenic analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
KONTAR Efim Semenovich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Ore Formation ◽  
Conceptual Base ◽  
Structural Formation ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Mineral Associations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Natural Component

Relevance and purpose of the work are due to the need to formulate the conceptual base and essence that determine the methodology of regional metallogenic analysis. Results. The fundamental provisions that make up the methodological and conceptual-semantic basis of the regional metallogenic analysis have been determined and concretized. The conceptual basis of regional metallogenic analysis is the provision that the ore (deposit) is included as a natural component in certain structural-material associations (or complexes), i.e., in certain formations of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. They are objectively existing and actually mapped geological bodies, which are expressed both in the form of stratified (series, formations, strata, packs, horizons) and intrusive (massifs) formations. On their basis, structural-formation (structuralmetallogenic) zoning is carried out. An important feature of magmatic, sedimentary and ore formations is their recurrence in the geological history of mobile belts, which confirms the concept of the conservatism of metallogenic processes in the geological history of the Earth. At the same time, along with repetitive ones, there are magmatic, sedimentary and ore formations formed in the geological history of the Earth only once. Lateral and vertical rows of rock and ore paragenetic associations are characterized. Examples of Caledonian and Hercynian lateral ore-formation series of the Urals are given. The main provisions of the quantitative assessment of the predicted resources of the predicted types of minerals are formulated. Conclusions. The regional metallogenic analysis consists of the following components: petro-lithoformational analysis, structural-formational zoning which is adequate to structural-metallogenic zoning, paragenetic analysis of mineral associations and geological-industrial typification of various-scale occurrences of a mineral, and quantitative assessment of expected mineralization predicted resources.

Earth And Heaven, 1750-1800: Enlightenment Ideas About The Relevance To Geology Of Extraterrestrial Operations And Events

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Celestial Mechanics ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Geological Investigation ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geological Science ◽  
The Ideal

A conceptual and methodological tension can be discerned among Enlightenment advocates of earth science, as regards extraterrestrial events and processes. True to the fundamental traditions of Theories of the Earth, many scientific thinkers exhibited clear recognition of the Earth's planetary status, as a member of a celestial family. To some this legitimated integration of a geological perspective into that of cosmology and astronomy. In extreme instances it even entailed an ideal of establishing earth science by deduction from principles of celestial mechanics. However, this integrative aspect of Theories of the Earth ran counter to another important element in the geological thinking of this era, one which asserted the overriding value of empirical investigation. In the minds of many empirical-minded champions of a natural history of the Earth, a true geology could only be built up through inductive discovery focussed exclusively on accessible terrestrial phenomena. Sometimes explicitly, often by merely tacit exclusion of extraterrestrial considerations, much geological investigation before 1800 tended to identify the integrity of the emerging science with the distinctively Earth-bound nature of the objects of study. The ideal of an autonomous geological science thus tended to be intertwined with a concept of terrestrial autonomy.

scholarly journals On the Devonian age of the World

The Geologist ◽  
1861 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 332-347
Author(s):  
W. Pengelly
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Conditions ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Geological Time ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Astronomical Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Devonian Age

The rooks composing the earth's crust contain a history and represent time—a history of changes numerous, varied, and important: changes in the distribution of land and water; in the thermal conditions of the world; and in the character of the organic tribes which have successively peopled it. The time required for these mutations must have been vast beyond human comprehension, requiring, for its expression, units of a higher order than years or centuries. In the existing state of our knowledge it is impossible to convert geological into astronomical time: it is at present, and perhaps always will be, beyond our power to determine how many rotations on its axis, or how many revolutions round the sun the earth made between any two recognised and well-marked events in its geological history. Nevertheless it is possible, and eminently convenient, to break up geological time into great periods: it must not be supposed, however, that such periods are necessarily equal in chronological, organic, or lithological value; or separated from one another by broadly marked lines of demarcation; or that either their commencements or terminations in different and widely separated districts were strictly synchronous.One of the terms in the chronological series of the geologist is known as the Devonian, that which preceeded it the Silurian, and the succeeding one the Carboniferous period; and these, with some others of less importance, belong to the Palæozoic or ancient-life epoch, or group of periods.

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