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Duke EOS ECS 204 Midterm Exam Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Duke EOS/ECS 204 Midterm Exam 2024-2025 Questions And Answers Latest
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Book of Genesis - Bible book with flood
the Flood - Biblical catastrophe to cleanse earth/form rocks if you're an original
catastrophism
Flood rocks - Rocks formed during the flood over the period of roughly a year
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,pre-Flood rocks - Original creation rocks
Sacred Theory of the Earth - Burnetts work suggesting hollow earth filled with
water until genesis flood due to surface water not being enough
Catastrophism - The earth is changed due to sudden large events
original (diluvial) catastrophism - There are original creation rocks and flood rocks
from genesis and thats it
Huttonian uniformitarianism - The same processes that happen now have always
happened to slowly form things
episodic catastrophism - Small sudden changes like floods form and change the
earth
Lyellian uniformitarianism - The physical rules of now apply to the past so the
processes going on are likely similar
substantive uniformitarianism - geologic processes have not changed through
geologic time (Hutton)
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, methodological uniformitarianism - asserts the fixity of natural laws in both
spatial and temporal contexts (Lyell)
actualism - A principle that says that laws of nature do not change
neo-catastrophism - Uniformitarianism but also accounting for things like volcanic
eruptions
Thomas Burnett - Catastrophist/hollow earth/Sacred theory of earth(died 1715)
James Hutton - original uniformitarian/soil boy(died 1797)
George Cuvier - Paris basin/discovered extinction(died 1838)
Charles Lyell - modern uniformitarian(died 1875)
Date of publication of the First Volume of Principles of Geology - 1830
Siccar Point - Scotland(showed layers of rock formations to solidify the view it
took it took a long time to build rock)
Paris Basin - France(alternate layers of marine and freshwater sediment; used to
support catastrophism)
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