Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 04. Check what happened ...

How ice, trees, coral and sediments help us reconstruct 2.6 million years of climate history: an introduction to paleoclimatology ...

DR. ALFRED WALLACE, in his letter to NATURE of May 2, calls attention to the significant fact that catastrophes caused by volcanoes “may be of greater magnitude now than in geologic times ...

The genesis of geology: The creation of the science of the earth -- The laws of the new science: Two different theories are proposed as explanations for the Earth's present form -- A long and steady ...

Specifically, uniformitarianism is the theory, “that all the geological processes that we can observe today have been operating since earth’s history,” said Tim Johnson a geologist at The ...

The present is the key to the past. Every geologist worth their sodium chloride knows this. The famous phrase, a distillation of the principle of uniformitarianism, can be seen emblazoned on mugs ...