A meteor colliding with Earth
Earthquakes and others
What was the catastrophism theory? Who was one of the first people to challenge this viewpoint and what did he say about it?
Catastrophism
"The end of the world describes the Earth's catastrophism."
Cuvier
False Catastrophism is not the idea that the present is the key to the past. Uniformitarianism is the idea that the person is the key to the past.
George Curvier
there are five i believe
Chasmism.
Uniformitarianism requires the assumption of vast time-lines, and catastrophism can function with or without assumptions of long timelines
the antonym for uniformitarianism is CATASTROPHISM. Uniformitarianism means to take a long period of time for the Earth to form. Catastrophism means the Earth quickly formed.
catastrophism