1.Introduction Uniformitarianism is a traditional approach used in many areas of geoscience that assumes the geologic processes observed today operated similarly throughout all of Earth history(Hutton,1788;Windley,1...1.Introduction Uniformitarianism is a traditional approach used in many areas of geoscience that assumes the geologic processes observed today operated similarly throughout all of Earth history(Hutton,1788;Windley,1993),with such an ideology commonly encapsulated by the maxim"the present is the key to the past".This concept is closely associated with the philosophical principle of Occam’s razor.展开更多
文摘1.Introduction Uniformitarianism is a traditional approach used in many areas of geoscience that assumes the geologic processes observed today operated similarly throughout all of Earth history(Hutton,1788;Windley,1993),with such an ideology commonly encapsulated by the maxim"the present is the key to the past".This concept is closely associated with the philosophical principle of Occam’s razor.