Catastrophes and Earth History : The New Uniformitarianism - William A. Berggren

Catastrophes and Earth History

The New Uniformitarianism

By: William A. Berggren (Editor), John A. Van Couvering (Editor)

Hardcover | 28 June 2016

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This book, based on papers from a symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, shows the necessity of developing a new philosophy in place of the classical uniformitarianism based only on processes familiar in human experience.

Originally published in 1984.

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