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Neptunism - Wikipedia
Neptunism is a superseded scientific theory of geology proposed by Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817) in the late 18th century.
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NEPTUNISM Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of NEPTUNISM is the theory of the neptunists.
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Neptunism | The Foundation of Modern Geology - Publish
Neptunism was a theory stating that the majority of the rocks that comprise earth's surface were once precipitated out of a vast ocean.
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Neptunism - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Neptune + -ism. Proper noun. edit. Neptunism. (historical) A discredited scientific theory of geology, held by many scientists around the late 18th ...
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Neptunism | geology - Britannica
German geologist who founded the Neptunist school, which proclaimed the aqueous origin of all rocks, in opposition to the Plutonists, or Vulcanists.
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Neptunism
Neptunism Geol. (ˈnɛptjuːnɪz(ə)m) [f. Neptune + -ism.] = Neptunianism.1905 A. Geikie Founders of Geol. (ed. 2) viii. 257 Powerful as an advocate for the Vulcanist doctrines in opposition to the prevailing Neptunism of his time, he wrote some excellent monographs on the geology of different parts of ...
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Neptunism and Vulcanism
The so-called "neptunist" (for water) versus "vulcanist" (for heat) debate arose in the late 1790s and had essentially subsided by 1820. The names came from the ...
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The Granite Controversy: Neptunism VS Plutonism - History of Geology
The dominant role of Neptunism, denominated after the Roman god of the sea, in geology during the 18th and 19th century can be traced back to ...
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Definition of neptunism - Mindat
The theory, advocated by AG Werner in the 18th century, that the rocks of the Earth's crust all consist of material deposited sequentially from, or ...
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Neptunism - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neptunism is a scientific theory of geology proposed by Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817) in the late 18th century. It proposed that rocks formed from the ...
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Plutonism
Due to this, after Werner’s death on 1817, neptunism declined as well, leaving the battle of neptunism and plutonism in a relative stagnation as pro-plutonism Hence, many of his students favoured neptunism over plutonism.
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Plutonism
Plutonism Geol. (ˈpluːtənɪz(ə)m) Also plutonism. [f. as plutonic + -ism. So F. plutonisme.] The Plutonic theory: see plutonic a. 1 a.1847 in Webster. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XI. 644/2 Wernerianism..rapidly declined in influence, while Plutonism came steadily to the front, where it has ever since remained...
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Grigory Razumovsky
He was also an advocate of Neptunism.
In 1788, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Robert Jameson
History at the University of Edinburgh for fifty years, developing his predecessor John Walker's concepts based on mineralogy into geological theories of Neptunism During this period he became the first eminent exponent in Britain of the Wernerian geological system, or Neptunism, and the acknowledged leader of the
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developed ideas of geological strata forming from water through chemical processes, which Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817) developed into a theory known as Neptunism
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