Lyell, Mount
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Tweet A peak, 3,997 m (13,114 ft) high, of the Sierra Nevada in east-central California. |
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British geologist whose Principles of Geology (1830-1833) advocated uniformitarianism rather than catastrophism and influenced Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. |
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