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Contents of 1.4 Uniformitarianism

1.4 Uniformitarianism

• What is it? What does it mean?
• Uniformity of natural processes as old as the Greek philosophers
• Means that the current processes on Earth obey the same basic physical laws they did "then" allowing us to back-calculate some prior condition.
• James Hutton and Charles Lyell (Principles of Geology v1-3, 1830-35) formalized concept.