Search results for "Uniformitarianism" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • dominant paradigm of geology has been uniformitarianism, also known as gradualism ... Before uniformitarianism, the dominant belief in many cultures of ...
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  • Sedimentology encompasses the study of modern sediments such as sand, Raymond Siever, Sand (New York: Scientific American Library, 1988, ISBN ...
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  • the terms consilience, catastrophism, and uniformitarianism, among others. In the “Language of Science” in the Philosophy, Whewell explained ...
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  • life and contrasted this view with that of uniformitarianism, that conditions had remained constant since the indefinite past. He contended that ...
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  • by the theory of evolution and uniformitarianism, which argued that "the past is the key to the present." Thus some Romantics looked ...
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  • Lyell advocated the geological theory of uniformitarianism in his influential work Principles of Geology (McGowan 2001). Lyell amassed a tremendous ...
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