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<em><u>The water in lakes comes from rain, snow, melting ice, streams, and groundwater seepage. If water leaves a lake by a river or other outlet, it is said to be open. All freshwater lakes are open. If water only leaves a lake by evaporation, the lake is closed.</u></em>
Hutton: created the idea that a (water erosion basically)continuing process formed and destroyed the rocks and soils of the Earth and that the process was a never ending loop.
Hutton laid the conceptual foundation for uniformitarianism geology
Lyell: added names and ages to the different layers of rocks
Lyell built the structure of geology upon that foundation
DNA? I think I'm not 100% sure
