Chronological overview of confrontation of ideas and controversies in geological conceptions:
Ancient Greeks and Romans
Middle Ages
fossils as documents of nature
neptunists: volcanists: plutonists
catastrophism, uniformitarianism: gradualism
Ice Age
Detection of age of the Earth
Geosyncline concept and the theory of plate tectonics
The emergence of modern geologic thought under the theory of plate tectonics and its impact on other natural sciences
Changes and limitations in understanding actualism
The history of geological thought in Slovenia
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