Robert Macfarlane. Glimpses into the abyss of time // The Spectator. Review of Repcheck's The Man Who Found Time, 13 септември 2003. Hutton possessed an instinctive ability to reverse physical processes – to read landscapes backwards, as it were. Fingering the white quartz which seamed the grey granite boulders in a Scottish glen, for instance, he understood the confrontation that had once occurred between the two types of rock, and he perceived how, under fantastic pressure, the molten quartz had forced its way into the weaknesses in the mother granite.
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American Museum of Natural History. James Hutton: The Founder of Modern Geology // Earth: Inside and Out. 2000. Архивиран от оригинала на 2016-03-03. Посетен на 2019-03-19. The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry, Hutton concluded, „is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end“.
John Playfair. Hutton's Unconformity // Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. V, pt. III, 1805, quoted in Natural History, June 1999. 1999. Архивиран от оригинала на 2012-07-08. Посетен на 2019-03-19.
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Hutton's Unconformity // Isle of Arran Heritage Museum, 2014. Посетен на 20 ноември 2017.
University of Edinburgh. Millennial Plaques: James Hutton // (Hutton's Millennial Plaque, which reads, "In honour of James Hutton 1726 – 1797 Geologist, [chemist, naturalist, father of modern geology, alumnus of the University", is located at the main entrance of the Grant Institute). Архивиран от оригинала на 2007-11-01. Посетен на 2019-03-19.
John Playfair. Hutton's Unconformity // Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. V, pt. III, 1805, quoted in Natural History, June 1999. 1999. Архивиран от оригинала на 2012-07-08. Посетен на 2019-03-19.
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Hugh Rance. Hutton's unconformities // Historical Geology: The Present is the Key to the Past. QCC Press, 1999. Архивиран от оригинала на 2008-12-03. Посетен на 20 октомври 2008.
Jedburgh: Hutton's Unconformity // Jedburgh online. Архивиран от оригинала на 2010-08-09. Посетен на 2019-03-19. Whilst visiting Allar's Mill on the Jed Water, Hutton was delighted to see horizontal bands of red sandstone lying 'unconformably' on top of near vertical and folded bands of rock.
David Denby. Northern Lights: How modern life emerged from eighteenth-century Edinburgh // The New Yorker. Review of James Buchan's Crowded With Genius (Capital of the Mind in the UK), 11 октомври 2004. In 1770, James Hutton, an experimental farmer and the owner of a sal ammoniac works, began poking into the peculiar shapes and textures of the Salisbury Crags, the looming, irregular rock formations in Edinburgh. Hutton noticed something astonishing—fossilized fish remains embedded in the rock. The remains suggested that volcanic activity had lifted the mass from some depth in the sea. In 1785, he delivered a lecture to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which included the remarkable statement that „with respect to human observation, this world has neither a beginning nor an end.“ Coolly discarding Biblical accounts of creation, the book that he eventually published, Theory of the Earth, helped to establish modern geology.
University of Edinburgh. Millennial Plaques: James Hutton // (Hutton's Millennial Plaque, which reads, "In honour of James Hutton 1726 – 1797 Geologist, [chemist, naturalist, father of modern geology, alumnus of the University", is located at the main entrance of the Grant Institute). Архивиран от оригинала на 2007-11-01. Посетен на 2019-03-19.
American Museum of Natural History. James Hutton: The Founder of Modern Geology // Earth: Inside and Out. 2000. Архивиран от оригинала на 2016-03-03. Посетен на 2019-03-19. The result, therefore, of this physical enquiry, Hutton concluded, „is that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end“.
Hugh Rance. Hutton's unconformities // Historical Geology: The Present is the Key to the Past. QCC Press, 1999. Архивиран от оригинала на 2008-12-03. Посетен на 20 октомври 2008.
Jedburgh: Hutton's Unconformity // Jedburgh online. Архивиран от оригинала на 2010-08-09. Посетен на 2019-03-19. Whilst visiting Allar's Mill on the Jed Water, Hutton was delighted to see horizontal bands of red sandstone lying 'unconformably' on top of near vertical and folded bands of rock.
