He started his professional life as a lawyer, but turned to his love of nature and developed the idea of stratigraphy.
Craters on the moon and Mars are named for him, but he spent his life studying formations of rocks on Earth.  He started his professional life as a lawyer, but turned to his love of nature and developed the idea of stratigraphy. You may know him best from your biology class: his friendship with Darwin impacted the naturalist's thinking. For ten points, name this famous geologist, author of The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man, and the man behind uniformitarianism.
Craters on the moon and Mars are named for him, but he spent his life studying formations of rocks on Earth.  
Charles {Lyell }