Question

The geologic time scale was first developed by William Smith and Charles Lyell, who recognized that rock strata represent successive time periods in geologic history.

True

False

Answer 1

The answer to the question is False. The geological time scale involves more than just one idea. The first to publish it was Arthur Holmes in 1913. He was a British geologist.

Step-by-step explanation:

There are a number of contributions from different scholars that have allowed is to conceive of time in the geological sense, it is not so easy to attribute it to just one person. For example, Nicolaus Steno was one of the first we know of who studied and tried to explain the principles of sedimentary rock in 1669. William Smith was a surveyor who had observed many fossils and found they were encountered in a particular order from his work in England in 1815.