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Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: Understanding Earth's Age [Pdf]
Article describing early efforts, beginning with Aristotle, to determine the Earth's age, and the influence of current culture on the acceptability of new and radical scientific theories. Questions are posed throughout about the nature...
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland: Digital Archive: Scottish Science Hall of Fame
Biographical and scientific information about discoveries and technological advances credited to ten Scots, Lord Kelvin (Kelvin scale), Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), James Watt (steam engine), and Alexander Fleming (penicillin),...
Vision Learning
Visionlearning: Ideas in Science: Theories, Hypotheses, and Laws
Learning module looking at scientific explanations. Discussion covers theories and how they develop, some well-known theories and their origins, and how theories are revised and refined. Also, covers hypotheses and laws. The three...
Other
Physical geography.net: Concept of Uniformitarianism
This fundamentals of physical geography site provides a good overview of this early theory on the development landforms and the scientists that were involved in its conception.
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Western Oregon University: Earth System Science: Geologic Time [Pdf]
An 81-page slideshow that looks at the principles of geology with respect to relative dating, at different concepts describing geological processes, at absolute age and radiometric dating, at the eons and eras in the geologic time scale,...
US Geological Survey
Relative Time Scale
This is a good resource for anyone who wants to understand the historical development that led to our understanding of relative dating. This site also has links to index fossils and a table of geologic time.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: S Hi Ps: James Hutton: Theology and Geology
James Hutton laid the foundation for dispelling religious ideas about the Earth and thus created a theological and geological debate. Describes Hutton's novel views on heat energy in geology,and his classification as a "Plutonist" in...
Vision Learning
Uniformitarianism and Recycling
This site explains the historical development of James Hutton's principle of uniformitarianism. It contrasts nonscientific explanations with Hutton's ideas.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: James Hutton
This article focuses on the life and discoveries of James Hutton.
Other
Strange Science/james Hutton
A brief description of James Hutton's philisophical stance and how he disputed the Neptunian philosophy and instead proposed the Plutonian theory.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Principle of Uniformitarianism
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to use information from the present to understand the past.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Principle of Uniformitarianism
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to use information from the present to understand the past.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Science World: Charles Lyell
This site from ScienceWorld describes the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell who supported the ideas of the uniformitarian principle and aligned himself with James Hutton's ideas. He also supported and refuted some of the ideas of Charles...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: James Hutton, m.d.
James Hutton MD was a Scottish geologist, physician, naturalist, chemist and experimental farmer. He is considered the father of modern geology.