Building on the Ideas First Proposed by James Hutton, Charles

question 8

Multiple Choice

Building on the ideas first proposed by James Hutton, Charles Lyell aimed to explain Earth's geological features using an approach known as uniformitarianism, which hypothesized that

• A) large-scale geological events abruptly shaped the surface of Earth.
• B) all geological processes operate in a sporadic manner and vary in their rate of change.
• C) observable geological processes rapidly change Earth's surface, greatly impacting organisms living in the region of change.
• D) the same geological processes currently observable operate over very long periods of time in a slow and gradual manner.

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