I have just been reading some of the original writing of James Hutton, of which I copy a small extract below:

“In the one case, the forming cause is in the body which is separated; for; after the body has been actuated by heat, it is by the action of the proper matter of the body, that the chasm which constitutes the vein is formed.”

Fortunately for later generations of geologists, John Playfair rendered Hutton’s work into readable prose. Sometimes I wonder if SAGG should have a resident “Playfair”.

BTW, Ellis, as we have just passed the shortest day, here, I assume you are around the longest day in your part of the world. Isn’t relativity a wonderful thing? smile


There never was nothing.