catastrophism 的定义
Geology.
- the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
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- But to deny catastrophism was to suggest a revolution in current thought.
- For the idea of catastrophism had not concerned the destruction of species merely, but their introduction as well.
- This view is a complete reconciliation of catastrophism and uniformitarianism, and is far more rational than either extreme.
- This principle of ‘uniformity’ knocked the old teaching of catastrophism on the head.
- To my mind there appears to be no sort of necessary theoretical antagonism between Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism.