Geologic History
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- Q1the changes that Earth has undergone since its formationGeologic history30s
- Q2a Scottish farmer and father of modern geologyJames Hutton -30s
- Q3rock breaks down into smaller piecesWeathering -30s
- Q4broken pieces of rock carried away by wind, waves, ice, gravityErosion30s
- Q5can settle and harden over a long time, mix with cementing substances, heat and pressure to form that kind of rockSedimentary rock30s
- Q6broken pieces of rockSediment -30s
- Q7Place where Hutton saw that rocks had been uplifted and tilted.Siccar Point30s
- Q8preserved remains of an organism from the remote past, usually in sedimentary rockFossils30s
- Q9Wrote many books about geological processes. In these books, he further described the principle of uniformitarianism and provided more evidence to support itCharles Lyell30s