Sir Charles Lyell was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of existing natural causes in explaining Earth history. He was born on 14 November 1797 in the Grampian Mountains near Forfarshire, Scotland. He Built on the innovative work of James Hutton and his follower John Playfair, favouring an indefinitely long age for the Earth, despite evidence suggesting an old but finite age.
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