Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1913 — 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 Sitaclysmlc) agencies, but Sir arles Lyell, as far back as 1888, 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 bg/paid to be the father of modern geology, or, to put it more correctly, of real, scientific geology.