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Categories: Obsolete geological theories, History of Earth science, 18th century in science

Neptunism Neptune theory Neptunian theory Neptunist Neptunist-Plutonist controversy

The now obsolete theory that all of the rocks of the earth's crust were formed by the agency of water. Open English WordNet

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The now obsolete theory that all of the rocks of the earth's crust were formed by the agency of water. Open English WordNet

Neptunism is a superseded scientific theory of geology proposed by Abraham Gottlob Werner in the late 18th century, who proposed that rocks formed from the crystallisation of minerals in the early Earth's oceans. Wikipedia

Obsolete theory that rocks formed from the crystallisation of minerals in the early Earth’s oceans, through processes such as great floods Wikidata

A discredited scientific theory of geology, held by many scientists around the late 18th century and early 19th century, that rocks were formed from the crystallisation of minerals in the early Earth's oceans. Wiktionary

Scientific theory. Wiktionary (translation)

Werner, with his Neptunism theory, argued that all rocks are the precipitates and crystallized minerals of an ocean that once covered the earth in the not too distant past. Open English WordNet

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