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idea that one or more catasrophes are primarily responsible for the Earth's geological features
uses decay of elements to assign "absolute" ages to rocks and fossils
what periods are subdivided into
the amount of time needed for half of a parent element to decay into its daughter element
smaller unit of time into which eras are divided
descsribes an organism that shows no change between its appearance in the fossil record and at the present day
idea that understanding modern geological processes is the key to understanding tthe earth's geologial history
wrote On the Origin of Species
evolutionists' hypothetical time scale
belief that the universe originated by natural processes over billions of years
developed uniformitarianism
a lobe-finned fish found as a fossil in the Devonian Period rock layer
biblical view of origins
the first and largest division of the geologic column
gap formed when continuous strata are "missing" one or more layers
branch of geology that studies fossils