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Hutton, James

James Hutton, 1726 - 1797, has been called the "father of modern geology".

Sedgwick, Adam

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) - one of the founders of geology as a science in England.

He defined and named the Cambrian period.

Born in Dent, Cumbria.

Wegener, Alfred

Wegener (1880-1930) was a German scientist and polar researcher who is best remembered as the father of the theory of "continental drift."

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