Catastrophism is a
A) principle very similar to actualism and uniformitarianism.
B) theory advanced first by a Scottish gentleman farmer named James Hutton and expounded upon by the English naturalist and author Charles Lyell.
C) nineteenth-century concept that floods caused by supernatural forces formed most of the rocks that we see today on Earth's surface today.
D) twentieth-century philosophy about the formation of volcanic rocks.
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Q11: The natural ordering known as fossil succession
A)
Q12: Charles Lyell was NOT
A) the author of
Q13: Central to Hutton's view of Earth's history
Q14: Steno's second principle says that
A) the laws
Q15: Which of the following is NOT an
Q17: Actualism is the
A) idea that the geological
Q18: _ form by the cooling of molten
Q19: The arrangement of sedimentary rocks in discrete
Q20: Naturally occurring radioactive materials
A) decay into other
Q21: An earthquake always begins at
A) the Moho.
B)
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