A cliff that changed our understanding of time
&gt; Hutton realised that the formation and movement of these rocks to create the coastline we see at Siccar Point couldn’t happen in sudden cataclysms over years or decades<p>Color me skeptical. Why couldn’t these be quickly deposited layers that were later turned upright in some cataclysm? Why couldn’t they have taken decades?<p>Yes I know it’s heresy to question long established science, but that is the essence of science is it not? Questions and skepticism :-)<p>Off to do more reading I suppose.