The controversy was Neptunism (what Bill described) versus Vulcanism
-- the idea that every thing was volcanic origin. It was important
because in britain they were trying in the 19th century to reconcile
the geologic record with the bible, and they had to know if they were
dating to Noah (the neptunists) or to creation ("let there be
light"). See Martin Rudwick, THe Great Devonian Controversy."
OT.
-k
At 1:38 PM -0500 7/11/08, Mixon Bill wrote:
I searched that book David mentioned about the Earth before the
Deluge (the Biblical flood). It does not contain the word "cave,"
perhaps because there weren't any yet. A popular theory of
speleogenesis in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was that
caves were eroded when the water of the flood came from within the
earth and/or when it drained back into it. An extensive discussion,
with references, is in Trevor Shaw's "History of Cave Science,"
chapter 19. -- Bill Mixon
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