2020
DOI: 10.1144/sjg2019-031
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Robert Jameson's transition from Neptunism to Plutonism as reflected in his lectures at Edinburgh University, 1820–33

Abstract: Robert Jameson is generally remembered for championing Neptunist geology (originated by Abraham Werner) during its early nineteenth-century competition with the rival Plutonist theory (initiated by James Hutton). Hutton's ideas prevailed and Jameson's intellectual transition to Plutonism is documented in the surviving notes taken by students who attended his lectures at Edinburgh University: one early record is from 1809, a second record is from c. 1820 and four sets of notes are from the early 1830s. Of the l… Show more

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“…Adams 1938) claim that he eventually verbally acknowledged the intrusive and igneous origin of granite at a meeting of the Geological Society of Edinburgh. Just prior to finalization of this article, Stone (2020) published an interesting analysis of Jameson's reluctant conversion based on some archived lecture notes compiled by former students. These suggest that he did eventually concede some ground to plutonism in the 1830s.…”
Section: From Caledonia To the Cape: The Weight Of Evidence Finally Pmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Adams 1938) claim that he eventually verbally acknowledged the intrusive and igneous origin of granite at a meeting of the Geological Society of Edinburgh. Just prior to finalization of this article, Stone (2020) published an interesting analysis of Jameson's reluctant conversion based on some archived lecture notes compiled by former students. These suggest that he did eventually concede some ground to plutonism in the 1830s.…”
Section: From Caledonia To the Cape: The Weight Of Evidence Finally Pmentioning
confidence: 99%