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Lyell
[ lahy-uhl ]
noun
- Sir Charles, 1797–1875, English geologist.
- Mount, a mountain in E central California, in Yosemite National Park, in the Sierra Nevada. 13,114 feet (3,997 meters).
- Also Lyall. a mountain on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, in the Rocky Mountains. 11,520 feet (3,511 meters).
Lyell
/ ˈlaɪəl /
noun
- LyellSir Charles17971875MScottishSCIENCE: geologist Sir Charles. 1797–1875, Scottish geologist. In Principles of Geology (1830–33) he advanced the theory of uniformitarianism, refuting the doctrine of catastrophism
Lyell
/ lī′əl /
- Scottish geologist who is considered one of the founders of modern geology. He is most famous for his principle of uniformitarianism, as first set forth in his three-volume Principles of Geology (1830–1833).
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Sir Charles Lyell, when a young man, visited the Turner family in 1817, and gives us a very high idea of them all.
The delta at the mouth of the Mississippi was calculated by Lyell to have been 100,000 years in forming.
On the other hand, Lyell's Principles of Geology had appeared and obtained wide acceptance.
How highly this Essay was esteemed by his contemporaries is shown by the expressions of Lyell and of Darwin.
In comparison with that antiquity, Lyell believed the historical period ‘would appear quite insignificant in duration.’
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