Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1910 — Cataclysmic Geology. [ARTICLE]

Cataclysmic Geology.

“Cataclysmic” geology no longer exists. It was once the accepted opinion that the great changes on the earth’s surface had been mainly brought about by sudden and violent (cataclysmic) agencies; but Sir Charles Lyell, as far back as 1838, demolished the old theory of cataclysm at once and forever. Sir Charles proved by facts which were indisputable that the great geological changes have been produced slowly by gradual processes of subsidence and elevation, and not by earthquakes, volcanic action, etc. Lyell may be said to be the father of modern geology, or, to put it more correctly, of real, scientific geology. A