But it wasn't until the late 1700s -- when Scottish geologist James Hutton, who observed sediments building up on the landscape, set out to show that rocks were time clocks -- that serious ...

The topic was evolution and I was specifically looking for an example ... In 1788, the Scottish Geologist James Hutton published his masterwork, “Theory of the Earth.” In this book, Hutton argued that ...

But it wasn't until the late 1700s -- when Scottish geologist James Hutton, who observed sediments building up on the landscape, set out to show that rocks were time clocks -- that serious ...