Theory of the Earth, by James Hutton, [1788 and 1795]
Facts in confirmation of the Theory, respecting
those Operations which re-dissolve the Surface
of the Earth. We have now discussed the proof of those mineral operations by which the horizontal strata, consolidated at the bottom of the sea, had been changed in their position, and raised into the place of land. The next object of our research is to see those operations, belonging to the surface of the earth, by which the consolidated and…