Hutton's Rock is where the founding father of geology arrived at his theory of how and when the world was formed.

Boulder, Colo., USA: Noted Turkish geologist, and member of the American Philosophical Society and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Dr. A.M. Celâl Şengör has taken on the Herculean task of ...

James Hutton studied law and medicine and was not a good writer — he initially became a farmer but ended up becoming a ...

A Scottish viewpoint regarded by some as the world's most important geological site could be upgraded to mark the 300th anniversary of James Hutton's birth. Hutton - described as the father of modern ...

James Hutton (1726–1797) was the father of modern geology, but as Baxter reveals, fellow scientists in Enlightenment Scotland didn't take to his ideas right away. Although more than a century earlier ...

The birth of modern geology is said to have started in the 18th century. The introduction of new concepts and thoughts about the Earth was a brave thing to do. Why is that? Because the believeth of ...

WHAT is it that has lured so many trained physicians "afield"? Each man's motive is unique for himself, and yet one general aspect should be remembered: until the nineteenth century, the young man who ...