To expand on this video, the concept described here is uniformitarianism. Charles Lyell would use this concept explored by Hutton to propose that these processes of geological changes are the same now as they were many years ago. Lyell demonstrated that many factors - including flooding, frost, water erosion, wind, matter decomposition, glaciers, volcanos, earthquakes, etc - all lead to the geology we have now and are still occurring. It was this concept which Charles Darwin used to help describe evolution being the change of genetic composition over time, with processes having great affect over long periods of time being an explanation for more than just geology.