Abraham Werner & his followers in the 18th c. were called Neptunists; they believed that all rocks were formed here
[DOC] [TLE] Abraham Gottlob Werner - Wikipedia [PAR] Abraham Gottlob Werner (25 September 1749  30 June 1817) was a German 
geologist who set out an early theory about the stratification of the Earth's crust 
and propounded a history of the Earth that came to be known as Neptunism.