2.Wernerians thought strata were deposits from shrinking seas, but James Hutton proposed a self-maintaining infinite cycle, anticipating uniformitarianism.
1.The new battle became an argument between catastrophism and uniformitarianism.
新的成了灾难主义和均主义之间的争论。机翻
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2.The old slow and steady idea called uniformitarianism now stood alongside a new idea called catastrophism, where rapid and violent events could sometimes shape Earth's geology in ways that slower processes couldn't explain.