A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE EVOLUTIONARY TREND IN LITHOLOGY

The changes taking place on the Earth’s surface have been documented since Antiquity. In the Modern period, the evolution of lithological processes was recognized by science and described by individual scientists, and since the second half of the 19th century, stable ideas have developed about a certain constancy of processes and their consequences in inanimate nature and changes in the organic world. Since the middle of the twentieth century, the ideas of the evolution of the sedimentary process began to prevail, accompanied by corresponding changes in the composition and properties of sedimentary formations with the direct and indirect participation of living organisms.