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Noun: Neptunism
  1. The now obsolete theory that all of the rocks of the earth's crust were formed by the agency of water.
    "Werner, with his Neptunism theory, argued that all rocks are the precipitates and crystallized minerals of an ocean that once covered the earth in the not too distant past."

Type of: theory

Encyclopedia: Neptunism