Abraham Werner & his followers in the 18th c. were called Neptunists; they believed that all rocks were formed here
The Neptunists, led by Werner and his students, maintained that the Earth was ... 
Werner's interpretation, which came to represent the so-called Neptunist ... 
disproved the Neptunist theory that all rocks were formed by sedimentation from... [DOC] [TLE] Abraham Gottlob Werner | German geologist | Britannica.com [PAR] He believed that the Earth was once completely covered by the oceans and that, 
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