Includes papers presented at a James Hutton bicentenary conference held in Edinburgh in 1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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James Hutton's Edinburgh : a prʹecis / D. B. McIntyre -- A theory of the earth : Hutton and Humpty Dumpty and Holmes / D. L. Anderson -- Hot little crucibles are pressured to reveal and calibrate igneous processes / P. J. Wyllie -- High-pressure experiments and the varying depths of rock metamorphism / W. Schreyer -- Coevolution of the earth's environment and life : Goldilocks, Gaia and the anthropic principle / A. J. Watson -- Impacts from space : the implications for uniformitarian geology / U. B. Marvin -- Vestiges of a beginning and the prospect of an end / I. W. Dalziel -- The Dynamic Earth project and the next millenium / S.K. Monro, A.J. Crosbie -- Closing remarks for the Hutton bicentenary, Edinburgh / R. H. Dott -- Hutton scholarship 1992-1997 / D. R. Dean