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What is uniformitarism?

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∙ 17y ago
Updated: 6/10/2024

Uniformitarism states that erosion occured very slowly and at the same rate.

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Why did uniformitarianism replace catastrophism as the favored theory of geologic change?

because before when they came up with both theorys, they believed the earth was only a few thousand years old . Therefore they believed in catastrophism. and now they have evidence to why uniformitarism could be right and for the earths age .


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