Siccar Point, Huttons Unconformity, Scotland. This place represents one of the most important places in geological history discovered by a man named James Hutton. Before this discovery, the earth was thought to only be 6000 years old but Hutton did not truly believe this was the case and went out searching for evidence against this. When he came across the following outcrop at Siccar point, he noticed that the rocks below were vertical and the rocks sitting on top were almost horizontal and thou