UNIFORMINITARIANISM "The present is the key to the past". The principle of James Hutton (1785) still dictates the extent of our abilities to interpret the past. ACTUALISM Limits the procedures of the stratigrapher in that this theory states:"no powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action is to be admitted except those which we understand and can observe". Actualism limits our imagination when it comes to interpreting the geologic record. |
The unconformity described by Hutton in 1785. Source: http://www2.cc.emory.edu/GEOSCIENCE /HTML/unconform.htm |
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