- Neptunist
- Neptunian Nep*tu"ni*an, Neptunist Nep"tu*nist, prop. n. [Cf. F. neptinien, neptuniste.] (Geol.) One who adopts the Neptunian theory. [1913 Webster]
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Neptunist
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neptunist — neptuníst s. m., adj. m., pl. neptuníşti; f. sg. neptunístă, pl. neptuníste Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic NEPTUNÍST, Ă adj., s. m … Dicționar Român
Neptunist — Nep|tu|nịst, der; en, en (Geol.): Verfechter des Neptunismus … Universal-Lexikon
Neptunist — Nep|tu|nịst 〈m.; Gen.: en, Pl.: en〉 Anhänger, Vertreter des Neptunismus … Lexikalische Deutsches Wörterbuch
Neptunist — Nep|tu|nist der; en, en <zu ↑...ist> Verfechter des Neptunismus … Das große Fremdwörterbuch
neptunist — nep·tun·ist … English syllables
neptunist — nə̇st noun ( s) Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary neptun (from Latin Neptunus) + ist : one holding the now obsolete theory that all of the rocks of the earth s crust were formed by the agency of water compare plutonist … Useful english dictionary
geochronology — geochronologic /jee oh kron l oj ik/, geochronological, adj. geochronologist, n. /jee oh kreuh nol euh jee/, n. the chronology of the earth, as based on both absolute and relative methods of age determination. [1890 95; GEO + CHRONOLOGY] * * *… … Universalium
Neptunism — Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749 1817), the founder of Neptunism Neptunism is a discredited and obsolete scientific theory of geology proposed by Abraham Gottlob Werner in the late 18th century that proposed rocks formed from the crystallisation of… … Wikipedia
Werner, Abraham Gottlob — born Sept. 25, 1750, Wehrau, Saxony died June 30, 1817, Freiberg German geologist. In opposition to the Plutonists, or Vulcanists, who argued that granite and many other rocks were of igneous origin, he founded the Neptunist school, which… … Universalium
Scrope, George Julius Poulett — ▪ British geologist born , March 10, 1797, London died Jan. 19, 1876, Fairlawn, Surrey, Eng. English geologist and political economist whose volcanic studies helped depose the Neptunist theory that all the world s rocks were formed by… … Universalium
