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What is uniformitarianism? Give 4 examples.

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Good examples are the reshaping of a coastline by a tsunami, deposition of mud by a flooding river, the devastation wrought by a volcanic explosion, or a mass extinction caused by an asteroid impact. The modern view of uniformitarianism incorporates both rates of geologic processes.

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the theory that changes in the earth's crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes.

Uniformitarianism, also known as the Doctrine of Uniformity or the Uniformitarian Principle, is the assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day scientific observations have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe

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