Invention Timeline - Sir Charles Lyell, English Geologist; Divided the Tertiary Period Into Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene
b. November 14, 1797 and d. February 22, 1875
Exeter College, Oxford, B. A., 1819; M. A., 1821
English geologist. He divided the tertiary period into eocene, miocene and pliocene, which has met with world-wide acceptance. In 1838 he published “Elements of Geology” and in 1871 a virtually new work, “The Student’s Elements of Geology.” For years this was the only good text book on geology.
On heavenly ground they stood; and, from the shore
They viewed the vast, immeasurable abyss,
Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild,
Up from the bottom turned by furious winds
And surging waves, as mountains, to assault
Heaven’s height, and with the centre mix the pole.
—Raphael’s Account of Creation: Milton
All the means of action-
The shapeless masses-the materials-
Lies everywhere about us. What we need
Is the celestial fire to change the flint
Into transparent crystal, bright and clear.
—The Spanish Student: Longfellow
2349 B. C., Decemebr 7—The Noachian deluge began in Armenia. It continued 377 days (Blair).
2348 B. C., May 6—Noah’s ark rested on one of the mountains of Ararat. December 18 Noah and family left the ark (Blair).
