Who is known as the Father of Geology?

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James Hutton is known as the Father of Geology. He was a Scottish geologist, physician, naturalist, and farmer who lived from 1726 to 1797.
 Hutton made significant contributions to the study of geology, and he is widely regarded as the founder of modern geology.
 Hutton's most important work was the theory of uniformitarianism, which proposed that the same geological processes that are observed today were also active in the past, and that the Earth's geological features are the result of slow, continuous processes that occur over long periods of time.