Here's the frontispiece from Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology. The book was first published in three volumes in 1830 to 1833, but this is from an 1857 edition. This cross-section shows an amazing understanding of the basic geologic processes that form the Earth's crust: plutonism, volcanism, metamorphism, sedimentation, and folding. Like most geologists (at least …

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