Wernerians thought strata were deposits from shrinking seas, but James Hutton proposed a self-maintaining infinite cycle, anticipating uniformitarianism.
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.
及其特征、将今论古说。
海洋
稳定的想法现在与称为灾
论的新想法并驾齐驱，其中快
烈的事件有时会以较
