Bischof and Mohr attempted to delineate a subsistence explanation for this theory.
Bischof and Mohr attempted to delineate a subsistence explanation for this theory. It postulated the underground burning of stratified coals or the cave-like collapse of Earth strata as a means of explaining deviations from concentric strata. It divided rocks into stratified, transitional or greywacke, and primitive and taught that mountains have always existed. Eventually falsified by Leopold von Buch and Alexander von Humboldt, it was most associated with Abraham Werner and opposed the rival plutonic theory. The belief that the features of the Earth were formed by rock crystallization out of a vast early sea, FTP, name this geologic theory named for the Roman god who is the counterpart of the Greek Poseidon.
Bischof and Mohr attempted to delineate a subsistence explanation for this theory.
{Neptunism} or {Neptune} Theory