Day: 12 August 2021
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Siccar Point and The Father of Geology
In 1788, 62 year old Dr. James Hutton, physician, merchant, local farmer and self-taught geologist set out by boat for Siccar Point. He was accompanied by his friends, Sir James Hall and John Playfair. Hutton was in search of an ‘unconformity‘ which he thought would prove his revolutionary theory that the earth was millions of…