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15 August, 00:05

Are the following geologic events: volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, meteorite impacts, and storm deposits geologic events encompassed by uniformitarianism? Why?

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  1. 15 August, 01:21
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    Catastrophism is the theory that the Earth has largely been shaped by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope, this contrast with Uniformitarianism that suggests that the landscape developed over long periods of time through a variety of slow geologic and geomorphic processes.

    To meaningfully study the past, we must assume the same or similar mechanisms operated then as now, following this idea we conclude that uniformitarianism is a more logical theory, geologists then consider periodic catastrophe (volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, meteorite impacts, and storm deposits) is one of those processes uniformitarianism suggests.

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