In this theory, there was no room for " catastrophism . " Bretz's article was ridiculed.
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He is known primarily for his work in collaboration with Bill Napier and others on the theory of " coherent catastrophism"
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In contrast, catastrophism is the theory that Earth's features formed in single, catastrophic events and remained unchanged thereafter.
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It also led Cuvier to advocate the geological theory of catastrophism to explain the succession of organisms revealed by the fossil record.
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The debate seems to be exacerbated by infighting between the Uniformitarianism camp and the Catastrophism camp . The Chalicothere vanished in the early Pleistocene
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As well as combating the Neptunists, he also opened up the concept of deep time for scientific purposes, in opposition to Catastrophism.
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Catastrophism held that geological epochs had ended with violent and sudden natural catastrophes such as great floods and the rapid formation of major mountain chains.
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I lost my account password on my other computer and so began editing as User : Velikovsky to look at some of the catastrophism pseudoscience.
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He braved to speak out on several controversial areas of science, suggesting a method of testing various Catastrophism theories in New Scientist in 1973.
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Faced with a future that scientists say is a great cause for concern, the film has the distinction of not giving in to catastrophism.