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Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell, detail of a replica in oil by Lowes Cato Dickinson, 1883; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Charles Lyell and Roderick Murchison explored districts in France and Italy together. During this expedition, which took place between May 1828 and February 1829, they sought evidence to support Lyell's developing principles of geology, which emphasized that natural processes observed today are sufficient to explain Earth's geological history.1