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Already in the 1830s Charles Lyell realized that there had been major changes in Earth’s climate over time. Alexander Agassiz’s championing of the idea of an ice age in 1840 introduced the idea that the climate had been radically different in the not too distant past.
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the causes of these changes, and the influences which they have exerted in modifying the surface and external structure of our planet.
Charles Lyell (1831)
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Hay, W.W. (2016). Documenting Past Climate Change
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In: Experimenting on a Small Planet. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27404-1_6
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