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Uniformitarianism has had two separate meanings, both more prevalent in 19th-century discourse:
The principle of uniformity postulates that the laws of nature discovered on earth apply throughout the universe. A corollary is that the principles of causation of events throughout time also remain constant. Contrast with uniformitarianism. See also: anthropic principle, intelligent design...
Jack Eddy did a study in 1976 demonstrating that irregular variations in solar surface activity, a few centuries long, were connected with major climate shifts. [1] Similar work has been done by Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon. Quotes "We had adopted a kind of solar uniformitarianism," solar...
uniformitarianism, later taken up by Charles Lyell, first reached a wide audience. In 1795 Playfair created an...
unconformity in a rock face. He first proposed the theory of uniformitarianism which is a basic.... Uniformitarianism describes an earth created by the same forces of sun, wind, and water which are at...
Charles Lyell. From around 1850 to 1980, most geologists endorsed uniformitarianism and gradualism... catastrophism and uniformitarianism is that to function, uniformitarianism requires the assumption of vast time...
geology Transform boundary Uniformitarianism...
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then-controversial idea of uniformitarianism, that the earth was shaped entirely by slow-moving...
Charles Lyell Sir Charles Lyell (November 14, 1797 – February 22, 1875), British geologist, and popularizer of uniformitarianism. Charles Lyell was born in Kinnordy, Forfarshire, Scotland... uniformitarianism, that the earth was shaped entirely by slow-moving forces acting over a very long...
he died in 1875. He successfully promoted the doctrine of uniformitarianism. This theory states that... and remained unchanged thereafter. (Hutton believed in uniformitarianism, but the idea was not...
uniformitarianism and the Plutonist school of thought. He is considered by many to be the father of modern.... Hutton also advocated uniformitarianism for living creatures too -- evolution, in a sense --and even...-strict adherence to uniformitarianism. References Repcheck, Jack (2003). The Man Who Found Time...