When Geologists Believed in Catastrophe
May 9, 2025
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as posted by the channelIn 1874, James Geikie’s The Great Ice Age reflected a view once common in early geology—that Earth’s history was shaped by sudden, violent convulsions.
Before “uniformitarianism” became doctrine, geologists believed a cataclysm marked the end of one world… and the beginning of ours.
Maybe they weren’t so wrong.
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