a22 Unconformities interpreted by Hutton
  
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1 T or F: By 1785 Cowper had learned that Earth was far older than most had previously assumed.
2 T or F: Hutton and Clerk found fossils Southern Uplands of Scotland.
3 T or F: Strachy (1671-1743) was the first to describe (but not name) an angular unconformity.
4 T or F: Jameson explanation of an angular unconformity at Burnswark Hill, Scotland, awed Darwin.
5 T or F: Playfair and Hall’s uncle were on a field trip with Hutton to Siccar Point.

Cowper quote
Southern Uplands,
Scotland
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Lake District,
England
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James Hutton
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040-03-02 portrate
040-03-03 long bio
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Burnswark Hill
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Angular unconformity
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1  T or F: A Steno valley-fill style of unconformity is well exposed in the Isle of Arran.
2  T or F: John Clerk of Eldin exaggerated the section he drew of the cut bank of the River Jedd.
3  T or F: The shistus at Siccar Point to which Playfair refers is more accurately described as folded graywacke.

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Isle of Arran,
1887
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River Jedd,
1887
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1 T or F: Devonian Old Red Sandstone strata are unconformable upon Silurian greywacke strata.

Siccar point,
1788
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Playfair, essay Description of Siccar Point
Lammermuir Hills
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