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''Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation'' is a book by the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell, first published in 3 volumes in 1830–1833. Lyell used geology throughout as a basis to strengthen his argument for Uniformitarianism. He used geological proof to determine that the Earth was older than 6,000 years, as had been previously contested. The book shows that the processes that are occurring in the present are the same processes that occurred in the past.〔Lyell, Charles. ''The Principles of Ecology'', London: 1833.〕 The book was influential, not least on the young graduate Charles Darwin. ==Book==
Published in three volumes in 1830–33, the book established Lyell's credentials as an important geological theorist and popularised the doctrine of uniformitarianism (first suggested by James Hutton). The central argument in ''Principles'' was that "the present is the key to the past": that geological remains from the distant past could, and should, be explained by reference to geological processes now in operation and thus directly observable.
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