Abstract
THE doctrine of uniformity in geology stated by Hutton in the words “we find no vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end” was accepted by many until Lord Kelvin surprised this school of geologists in 1868 by drawing a very decided limit to the possible age of the earth.
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See for example Rutherford, Nobel lecture, 1908.
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The Age of the Earth 1 . Nature 88, 334–336 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/088334a0
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